Cerrado State Park
| Cerrado State Park | |
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| Parque Estadual do Cerrado | |
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IUCN category II (national park)
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Canyon of the Jaguariaíva River
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| Nearest city | Jaguariaíva, Paraná |
| Coordinates | 24°09′58″S 49°39′19″W / 24.165993°S 49.655201°WCoordinates: 24°09′58″S 49°39′19″W / 24.165993°S 49.655201°W |
| Area | 1,830.40 hectares (4,523.0 acres) |
| Designation | State park |
| Created | 27 March 1992 |
| Administrator | IAP: Instituto Ambiental do Paraná |
The Cerrado State Park (Portuguese: Parque Estadual do Cerrado) is a state park in the state of Paraná, Brazil. It protects a river canyon and the surrounding cerrado fields.
The Cerrado State Park is in the municipalities of Jaguariaíva and Sengés in the state of Paraná. It is 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) from the municipal seat. It has an area of 1,830.40 hectares (4,523.0 acres). When created it was bounded to the east by the Jaguariaíva River, to the north by the Santo Antônio Stream (Ribeirão Santo Antônio ), and to the south and west by private properties. The terrain is from 800 to 900 metres (2,600 to 3,000 ft) above sea level, or 750 metres (2,460 ft) in the Jaguariaíva canyon.
Soils in the park are mostly latosols, typically red latosol, with low natural fertility, The Köppen climate classification is Cfb, temperate and always humid. The warmest month has average temperatures below 22 °C (72 °F) and the rest of the year has average temperatures above 10 °C (50 °F). Frost occurs at most in five nights of the year. On average there are 129 rainy days and 236 dry days.
The vegetation of the northeast of Paraná, on the reverse of the Furnas escarpment, is a mosaic of forest fragments, grassland and cerrado. The region is in the transition between the cerrado of central Brazil and the seasonal semi-deciduous forest of the south and southeast of the country. It is at the northern limit of the southern grasslands. Different types of vegetation grow at different altitudes. Generally the grasslands are found in the higher regions with shallow and young soils, while cerrado or forest is found lower down where there are older and deeper soils. Human activities in the area have replaced much of the vegetation by monocultures. Remnants of the original vegetation have often been disturbed by fires, livestock or selective logging.
The Cerrado State Park holds one of the few protected areas of cerrado in the state. It has great diversity of flora in a small area, and has been much studied by researchers from the Federal University of Paraná and other institutions. The park holds important samples of the four main vegetation types of the region: forest, cerrado, prairie and rocky outcrop vegetation. The cerrado includes clean or rocky grassland, campo cerrado, cerrado strict sense and a very small area of cerradão. Forest includes forest in the transition to cerrado and ciliary forest along the watercourses.
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