Serra da Bodoquena National Park
| Serra da Bodoquena National Park | |
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| Parque Nacional da Serra da Bodoquena | |
IUCN category II (national park) | |
 Serra da Bodoquena | |
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| Nearest city | Bonito, Mato Grosso do Sul |
| Coordinates | 21°14′24″S 56°41′49″W / 21.24°S 56.697°W |
| Area | 77,022 hectares (190,330 acres) |
| Designation | National park |
| Created | 21 September 2000 |
| Administrator | ICMBio |
Serra da Bodoquena National Park (Portuguese: Parque Nacional da Serra da Bodoquena) is a national park in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul in Brazil.
Place
The park is part of the cerrado place for living things. It is 77,022 hectares (190,330 acres) in size. People made it into a park on 21 September 2000. The Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation runs the park.[1] The park is in the Pantanal Biosphere Reserve, which has other parks in it too: Pantanal, Chapada dos Guimarães, and Emas national parks and Serra de Santa Bárbara, Nascentes do Rio Taquari and Pantanal de Rio Negro state parks.[2] Parts of the park are in Porto Murtinho, Jardim, Bonito, and Bodoquena, Mato Grosso do Sul.[3]
Conservation
The IUCN says this park is a IUCN protected area category II (national park). This park is there to protect the natural living things and place for its beauty and to allow people to do scientific research, learn about the environment, have outdoor fun, and visit.[3] Protected species include the catfish Ancistrus formoso, Jaguar (Panthera onca), and cougar (Puma concolor).[1]
References
Sources
Media related to Parque Nacional da Serra da Bodoquena at Wikimedia Commons
- Carrijo, Martha GilkaGutiérrez; Torrecilha, Sylvia (June 2009), Plano de Manejo do Parque Estadual das Nascentes do Taquari (PDF), Campo Grande – Mato Grosso do Sul: IMASUL: Instituto do Meio Ambiente de Mato Grosso do Sul, retrieved 2016-12-13
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link) - Parque Nacional da Serra da Bodoquena (in Portuguese), Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation, archived from the original on 2016-03-03, retrieved 2016-05-02
- Unidade de Conservação: Parque Nacional da Serra da Bodoquena (in Portuguese), MMA: Ministério do Meio Ambiente, retrieved 2016-05-02
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