Biribiri State Park
| Biribiri State Park | |
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| Parque Estadual de Biribiri | |
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IUCN category II (national park)
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Cachoeira dos Cristais
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| Nearest city | Diamantina, Minas Gerais |
| Coordinates | 18°08′44″S 43°37′08″W / 18.145438°S 43.618942°WCoordinates: 18°08′44″S 43°37′08″W / 18.145438°S 43.618942°W |
| Area | 16,999 hectares (42,010 acres) |
| Designation | State park |
| Created | 22 September 1998 |
| Administrator | Instituto Estadual de Florestas MG |
The Biribiri State Park (Portuguese: Parque Estadual de Biribiri) is a state park in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. It protects a mountainous region of cerrado. The park contains an abandoned village, once home to workers in a textile factory, which is now a tourist attraction.
The Biribiri State Park is in the municipality of Diamantina, Minas Gerais, 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) from the municipal seat and 300 kilometres (190 mi) from the state capital of Belo Horizonte. It has an area of 16,999 hectares (42,010 acres). The park is accessed via a dirt road, but it is maintained well and can be used by cars. The entrance is 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) from the center of Diamantina.
The park is in the Serra do Espinhaço, a range with quartz rocks in the Jequitinhonha River basin. Altitudes range from 720 metres (2,360 ft) in the north to 1,480 metres (4,860 ft) in the south. The park still has traces of gold and diamond exploration. There are archaeological sites with rock inscriptions, but their locations are not marked.
The climate is tropical, with annual average temperature of about 18 °C (64 °F). The wettest month is December. Vegetation includes cerrado, gallery forest and rocky fields. There are fragments of cerradão in the north, and areas of dense forest on the slopes of streams and rivers. Flora include the Vellozia squamata, Caryocar brasiliense, jacarandá, pau-santo, Campomanesia pubescens, Hancornia speciosa and candeia, as well as many types of evergreens, orchids and bromeliads.
Fauna include maned wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus), cougar (Puma concolor) and southern crested caracara (Caracara plancus). Other species include the giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla), rock cavy (Kerodon rupestris), lesser nothura (Nothura minor), helmeted manakin (Antilophia galeata) and hyacinth visorbearer (Augastes scutatus).
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