Fritz Plaumann State Park
| Fritz Plaumann State Park | |
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| Parque Estadual Fritz Plaumann | |
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IUCN category II (national park)
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Walkway beside the Itá Reservoir
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| Nearest city | Concórdia, Santa Catarina |
| Coordinates | 27°17′48″S 52°07′33″W / 27.296756°S 52.125968°WCoordinates: 27°17′48″S 52°07′33″W / 27.296756°S 52.125968°W |
| Area | 741 hectares (1,830 acres) |
| Designation | State park |
| Created | 24 September 2003 |
| Administrator | ECOPEF, FATMA |
| Website | www |
The Fritz Plaumann State Park (Portuguese: Parque Estadual Fritz Plaumann) is a state park in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil. It protects one of the last remnants of seasonal deciduous forest in the state on the shore of the reservoir of the Itá Hydroelectric Power Plant.
The Fritz Plaumann State Park is in the municipality of Concórdia in the west of Santa Catarina. It has an area of 741 hectares (1,830 acres). It is named after a German scientist who lived in the region. Fritz Plaumann (1902–94) gathered more than 80,000 specimens of insects during his long career, now exhibited at the Fritz Plaumann Entomological Museum (Museu Entomológico Fritz Plaumann) in Seara. The collection is the largest in Latin America and one of the largest in the world.
The park is on the north shore of the lake formed by the dam of the Itá Hydroelectric Power Plant on the Uruguay River, built between 1990 and 2000. About 1/3 of the park is an island in the reservoir. The Queimados River rises above the city of Concórdia and its flooded mouth on the Uruguay River forms the western boundary of the park. The park contains the Lajeado Cruzeiro, a watercourse that has its sources around the park and its mouth near the flooded area of the Queimados River. The park's buffer zone is a 500 metres (1,600 ft) strip around the park, extending to include small hydrographic basins that drain into the park. There are about 70 farms in the bufer zone growing various crops and raising dairy cattle, pigs, poultry and sheep.
Studies for implementation of conservation units to compensate for areas flooded by the Itá Dam began in 1990, and in 1994 an ecological station was defined with two parts, one in Santa Catarina and the other in Rio Grande do Sul. In 1996 the portion in Rio Grande do Sul was recategorized as the Teixeira Soares Municipal Nature Park, while the Santa Catarina portion remained an ecological station. Between 2000 and 2001 the management plan was prepared for what would be the Barra do Queimados Ecological Station. In 2003 public consultation were held on changing the management category and the name.
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