Campos Amazônicos National Park
| Campos Amazônicos National Park | |
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| Parque Nacional Campos Amazônicos | |
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IUCN category II (national park)
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Flooded forest in the park
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| Nearest city | Machadinho d'Oeste, Rondônia |
| Coordinates | 8°27′19″S 61°07′42″W / 8.455267°S 61.128342°WCoordinates: 8°27′19″S 61°07′42″W / 8.455267°S 61.128342°W |
| Area | 961,317.77 hectares (2,375,467.9 acres) |
| Designation | National park |
| Created | 21 June 2006 |
| Administrator | Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation |
The Campos Amazônicos National Park (Portuguese: Parque Nacional dos Campos Amazônicos) is a National park in the states of Rondônia, Amazonas and Mato Grosso, Brazil.
The Campos Amazônicos National Park covers parts of the municipalities of Novo Aripuanã (66.69%), Manicoré (14.73%) and Humaitá (5.01%) in Amazonas, Machadinho d'Oeste (12.91%) in Rondônia and Colniza (0.38%) in Mato Grosso. It has an area of 961,317.77 hectares (2,375,467.9 acres). The park lies to the south of the Trans-Amazonian Highway (BR-230) in Amazonas. It is bordered to the south by the Tucumã State Park in Mato Grosso and the Manicoré State Forest and Guariba Extractive Reserve in Amazonas.
The Roosevelt River flows through the park from south to north. The Jiparaná River (Machado River) forms the park's southern boundary in Rondônia. The terrain is generally flat, with some gently rolling stretches. It is laced with slow, meandering rivers. It contains parts of the basins of the Machado and Roosevelt rivers, and contains the headwaters of the dos Marmelos and Manicoré rivers.
The Campos Amazônicos National Park is in the Amazon biome. Average annual rainfall is 2,300 millimetres (91 in). Temperatures range from 12 to 32 °C (54 to 90 °F) with an average of 27 °C (81 °F). The park holds an important enclave of cerrado including grasslands, campos sujos and cerradão in the areas of contact with the forest, and gallery forest in the wetlands. It also contains typical Amazon dense rainforest and open rainforest. Coverage is 18% open rainforest, 42% dense rainforest, 12% savanna-rainforest contact and 28% savanna-pioneer formation contact.
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