Massairo Okamura State Park

The Massairo Okamura State Park (Portuguese: Parque Estadual Massairo Okamura) is a state park in the city of Cuiabá, capital of Mato Grosso, Brazil. It preserves an area of typical cerrado forest in a densely urbanised area.

Massairo Okamura State Park
Parque Estadual Massairo Okamura
IUCN category VI (protected area with sustainable use of natural resources)
Nearest cityCuiabá, Mato Grosso
Coordinates15°34′28″S 56°04′07″W
DesignationState park
Created1 September 2000
AdministratorCoordenadoria de Unidades de Conservação, Mato Grosso

Location

The Massairo Okamura State Park[lower-alpha 1] has an area of 51 hectares (130 acres) in the city of Cuiabá, Mato Grosso.[2] It lies to the east of the Avenida Hist. Rubens de Mendonça and north of the Avenida Ver. Juliano de Costa Marques, near the Universidade de Cuiabá, Pantanal.[3] About 500 people visit the park daily.[4] The park includes about 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) of trails, public toilets, a centre for environmental education, administrative facilities and a stage for community activities.[5] The park contains the Praça Nações Indígenas (Indigenous Nations Plaza), a tribute to the Bororo people who inhabited the region in pre-colonial times.[1]

Environment

The park provides a green space with typical cerrado vegetation in the centre of a highly urbanized area, and helps preserve the headwaters of the Barbado and Moinho streams.[6] 129 species of trees or plants have been catalogued along the park trails. They include cerrado species and medicinal plants such as lixeira, jatobá, cumbaru, angico, carvão vermelho, quina, aroeira, oiti (Licania tomentosa) and sete cascas. It is home to howler monkeys.[4]

History

The Massairo Okamura Ecological Reserve was created by law 7.313 of 1 September 2000 as an ecological reserve in the political/administrative centre of the Mato Grosso state government. On 21 September 2001 it was reclassified as the Massairo Okamura State Park. A management plan was published on 31 December 2012, but was not made official through an ordinance. The advisory council was reactivated on 16 December 2014.[7]

Notes
  1. The name of the park is a tribute to the former councilman Massairo Okamura who founded the Cuiabana Society of Environment in 1977, the first NGO dedicated to environmental issues.[1]
  1. Noelisa Andreola 2015.
  2. PES Massairo Okamura – ISA, Informações gerais.
  3. PES Massairo Okamura – ISA, Informações gerais (mapa).
  4. Animais silvestres e mata nativa – Diario de Cuiabá.
  5. Parque Estadual Massairo Okamura – Câmara Municipal.
  6. PES Massairo Okamura – ISA, Características.
  7. PES Massairo Okamura – ISA, Historico Juridico.

Sources
  • "Animais silvestres e mata nativa", Diario de Cuiabá (in Portuguese), 4 June 2006, retrieved 2016-08-01
  • Noelisa Andreola (24 May 2015), "Parque Massairo Okamura se destaca pela organização", Circuito Mato Grosso (in Portuguese), retrieved 2016-08-01
  • Parque Estadual Massairo Okamura (in Portuguese), Câmara Municipal de Cuiabá, retrieved 2016-08-01
  • PES Massairo Okamura (in Portuguese), ISA: Instituto Socioambiental, retrieved 2016-08-01
gollark: Ah, clay, the most valuable material in existence.
gollark: You should try MODDED™, where the time taken is REDUCED™.
gollark: <@!330678593904443393>
gollark: Anyway, science is basically just a way to find out things about the world, and theoretically (this is somewhat broken a lot of the time, honestly) can have incorrect stuff noticed and corrected. Religion goes "LALALALALA I'M RIGHT I'M RIGHT" and then if this ever comes into conflict with the world, says the world's wrong or calls it a metaphor or something.
gollark: What if they're nonexistent lizards? That's much easier.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.