Alto Juruá Extractive Reserve

Alto Juruá Extractive Reserve
Reserva Extrativista do Alto Juruá
IUCN category VI (protected area with sustainable use of natural resources)
Coordinates	9°08′35″S 72°32′02″W / 9.143°S 72.534°W / -9.143; -72.534Coordinates: 9°08′35″S 72°32′02″W / 9.143°S 72.534°W / -9.143; -72.534
Area	537,946.47 ha (2,077.0229 sq mi)
Designation	Extractive reserve
Created	23 January 1990
Administrator	Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation

The Alto Juruá Extractive Reserve (Portuguese: Reserva Extrativista do Alto Juruá) is an extractive reserve in the state of Acre, Brazil. The reserve is in the Amazon rainforest. As of 2011 it had about 5,000 residents. The objective is to support traditional occupations including extraction of rubber and other forest resources, farming, hunting and fishing, while preserving the environment.

The Alto Juruá Extractive Reserve has an area of 537,946.47 hectares (1,329,294.7 acres). It is mostly contained in the municipality of Marechal Thaumaturgo in the state of Acre. Small parts are in the surrounding municipalities of Jordão, Porto Walter and Tarauacá, also in Acre.

The reserve is bounded by the international border with Peru to the south. It adjoins the Serra do Divisor National Park on the northwest, and the Riozinho da Liberdade and Alto Tarauacá extractive reserves on the northeast. It also adjoins the Arara do Rio Amônia and Kampa do Rio Amônea indigenous territories on the west and the Jaminawa/Arara do Rio Bagé, Kaxinawa do Baixo Jordão, Kaxinawa do Rio Jordão and Kaxinawa/Ashaninka do Rio Breu indigenous territories to the east. The reserve would be included in the proposed Western Amazon Ecological Corridor.

The terrain is hilly with slopes from 3% to 20%. The Juruá River flows north through the western part of the Alto Juruá Extractive Reserve.The Tejo River flows from the east through the reserve to join the Juruá upstream of the settlement of Marechal Thaumaturgo, which is on the left bank of the Juruá just outside the reserve. The reserve is drained by a network of streams feeding these two rivers.