Montagnas do Tumucumaki ( port. Parque Nacional Montanhas do Tumucumaque - “Tumucumaki mountains”; tumukuˈmaki ) is a national park located in the north-west of Brazil , in the state of Amapa . Located in the rainforests of the Amazon . In the north it borders with Suriname and French Guiana .
| Montagnas do Tumucumaki | |
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| port. Montanhas do Tumucumaque | |
| IUCN Category II ( National Park ) | |
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| Square | 38,874 km² / 9.56 million acres |
| Established | August 23, 2002 |
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| A country |
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The Brazilian government declared Montagnas do Tumucumaki a national park on August 23, 2003.
The area of the park is 38,874 km² (for comparison, the area of Belgium is 30,528 km²), making Montagnas do Tumucumaki the largest national park in the world, located in rainforests . The total area, together with the nearby Guiana Amazonia National Park, reaches 59,174 km². This group of parks is only slightly smaller than the system of parks on the Brazilian-Venezuelan border, where the national parks of , Serrania de la Neblina and Serra da Neblina account for more than 73,000 km². But the latter, of course, are smaller if the Montagnas do Tumucumaki and Guiana Amazonia parks are considered in conjunction with the large protected areas located next to the state of Para , such as the Grão-Pará Ecological Station, Maicuru Biological Reserve and many others . It is important that all these territories almost completely cover the Guiana Highlands - one of the most protected from the environmental point of view, and at the same time - the most significant ecological corridors of tropical rainforests in the world. A large number of animal species (mainly fish and waterfowl) that live there are endemic , that is, they do not live in other areas of the planet. Montagnas do Tucumaki is the habitat of jaguars , various primates , water turtles , eagles and agoutis .
In the park of Montagnas do Tumucumaki, the highest point of the Brazilian state of Amapa is located ( Tumuc-Umac , port. Serra do Tumucumaque , 701 m) [1] .
The 4th version of the Mozilla Firefox browser was codenamed Tumucumaque [2] .
See also
- List of Brazil National Parks
- Geography of brazil
- Guiana Amazonia (National Park)
Notes
- ↑ Brasil - Ampac Neopr . Date of treatment October 12, 2013. Archived August 11, 2013.
- ↑ Tumucumaque Park (unavailable link) . Mozilla Date of treatment October 12, 2013. Archived June 29, 2011.
Links
- Tumucumaque National Park - Conservation International . conservation.org (November 21, 2003). Date of treatment October 12, 2013. Archived June 1, 2007.