Juruena National Park

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The Juruena National Park is located in the Brazilian states of Mato Grosso, Amazonas and Pará, and is named after the river Juruena, which flows through the area, later united with the Teles Pires and then the Amazon Creek Tapajoss forms.

General

The National Park was as part of the ARPA program ( Amazon Region Protected Areas) of the Brazilian government established on 5 June 2006 and consists of 19,570 square kilometers, which are mainly characterized by almost untouched rainforest with its typical diverse animal and plant life. As rain forests are threatened by logging, agricultural Innutzungnahme and other factors in their existence, is to preserve along with other protected areas in the region in terms of a habitat network the largest remaining contiguous rainforest on earth, prior to its complete destruction of the Juruena National Park.

Wildlife

The reserve offers many other types jaguars, giant otters and harpy eagle habitat. In the rivers and river dolphins were detected.