Chandless State Park
| Chandless State Park | |
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| Parque Estadual Chandless | |
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IUCN category II (national park)
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View of the park, with a settlement in the foreground
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| Nearest city | Manoel Urbano, Acre |
| Coordinates | 10°01′20″S 70°21′37″W / 10.022291°S 70.360337°WCoordinates: 10°01′20″S 70°21′37″W / 10.022291°S 70.360337°W |
| Area | 695,303 hectares (1,718,130 acres) |
| Designation | State park |
| Created | 2 September 2004 |
| Administrator | Instituto de Meio Ambiente do Acre |
The Chandless State Park (Portuguese: Parque Estadual Chandless) is a state park in the state of Acre, Brazil. It protects an important but relatively unexplored region of rainforest with bamboos holding great biodiversity. It is valuable as an ecological corridor between adjoining conservation units and indigenous territories. Some parts of the park are used by uncontacted nomadic indigenous people.
The Chandless State Park is in the municipalities of Sena Madureira (11.73%), Santa Rosa do Purus (22.68%) and Manoel Urbano (65.59%) in the state of Acre. The park is bordered to the west by the international border with Peru and Peru's Manú National Park. To the east it adjoins the Cazumbá-Iracema Extractive Reserve. It adjoins the Alto Rio Purus Indigenous Territory to the north and the Mamoadate Indigenous Territory to the south. The park has an area of 695,303 hectares (1,718,130 acres). It is difficult to access. The headquarters may be reached by boat from Manuel Urbano or by charter float plane from Rio Branco. The forest is hard to penetrate due to large numbers of bamboos with thorns.
The park lies in the Purus River basin. The Chandless River enters the park from Peru and runs through it in a north east direction, joining the Purus River to the north of the park. The main tributaries of the Chandless are the Cuchichá and Chandless-chá streams. The Cuchicá forms the northern border of the park to the point where it joins the Chandless. The terrain is part of the Amazon plain with extensive wetlands, periodically flooded areas and many creeks and lakes, including oxbow lakes. Aspects of natural beauty include dry ravines 15 metres (49 ft) deep, rocky outcrops, small rapids and sandy beaches.
Average annual rainfall is 1,773 to 2,086 millimetres (69.8 to 82.1 in). Average annual temperature is from 24.3 to 25.1 °C (75.7 to 77.2 °F). The rivers are white water and vary in depth depending on the season. They are full between October and May, and lowest between June and September.
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