Mata das Flores State Park

The Mata das Flores State Park (Portuguese: Parque Estadual de Mata das Flores) is a State park in the state of Espírito Santo, Brazil.

Mata das Flores State Park
Parque Estadual de Mata das Flores
IUCN category II (national park)
Nearest cityCastelo, Espírito Santo
Coordinates20°36′39″S 41°10′14″W
Area800 hectares (2,000 acres)
DesignationState park
Created2 January 1992
AdministratorIEMA

Location

The Mata das Flores State Park is in the municipality of Castelo, Espírito Santo, with an area of about 800 hectares (2,000 acres). It is surrounded by coffee plantations. It holds an important remnant of Atlantic Forest and provides an ecological corridor from the warmer lowlands to the higher and colder Forno Grande and Pedra Azul state parks.[1] The park is popular for hiking and cycling among the large trees.[2]

The main biome is dense montane semideciduous rainforest.[3] Vegetation include Cedrela, Cassia, bromeliads and palms.[1] The park contains examples of the giant jequitibá rosa (Cariniana legalis) as well as delicate orchids.[3] It takes ten adults holding hands to encircle some of the jequitibás, which may be over 3,000 years old.[2] Fauna include hawks, toucans, owls, pacas, foxes, sloths, hedgehogs and capuchin monkeys.[1]

History

The Mata das Flores State Park was created by state law 4.617 of 2 January 1992.[3] It became part of the Central Atlantic Forest Ecological Corridor, created in 2002.[4]

Notes
    1. Parque Estadual de Mata das Flores – IEMA.
    2. Reserva Florestal Mata das Flores – Descubra Castelo.
    3. Parque Estadual Mata das Flores – Portal Castelo.
    4. Lamas, Crepaldi & Mesquita 2015, p. 101.

    Sources
    • Lamas, Ivana Reis; Crepaldi, Maria Otávia; Mesquita, Carlos Alberto Bernardo (2015), Uma Rede no Corredor (PDF) (in Portuguese), Conservação Internacional (CI-Brasil), ISBN 978-85-98830-28-5, retrieved 2016-10-22
    • Parque Estadual de Mata das Flores (in Portuguese), IEMA: Instituto Estadual de Meio Ambiente e Recursos Hídricos, archived from the original on 2016-10-27, retrieved 2016-10-26
    • "Parque Estadual Mata das Flores", Portal Castelo (in Portuguese), retrieved 2016-10-26
    • "Reserva Florestal Mata das Flores", Descubra Castelo (in Portuguese), retrieved 2016-10-26
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