Humaitá National Forest
| Humaitá National Forest | |
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| Floresta Nacional de Humaitá | |
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IUCN category VI (protected area with sustainable use of natural resources)
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| Nearest city |
Humaitá, Amazonas Brazil |
| Coordinates | 7°59′42″S 62°30′47″W / 7.995°S 62.513°WCoordinates: 7°59′42″S 62°30′47″W / 7.995°S 62.513°W |
| Designation | National forest |
| Administrator | Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation |
Humaitá, Amazonas
The Humaitá National Forest (Portuguese: Floresta Nacional de Humaitá) is a national forest in the state of Amazonas, Brazil.
The Humaitá National Forest is in the Humaitá municipality of the state of Amazonas. It covers an area of 473,154.76 hectares (1,169,190.9 acres). The forest is bounded by the border with Rondônia to the south, the Madeira River to the west and the Trans-Amazonian Highway (BR-230) to the north. The Campos Amazônicos National Park is some distance east of the national forest.
The national forest is in the lower plateau of the western Amazon, consisting of extensive flat areas with occasional formations of higher land. Altitudes range from 305 to 915 metres (1,001 to 3,002 ft) above sea level. Drainage is poor, and small lakes form in the rainy season and later disappear. The forest is in the Madeira River basin, on the right bank of the Madeira. The "white water" rivers draining the forest contain large amounts of sediment and form fertile floodplains. The main rivers in the forest are the Maici River, a headwater of the Marmelos, and the Maicimirim and Machado rivers, direct tributaries of the Madeira.
The national forest is in the Amazon biome. Average annual rainfall is 2,750 millimetres (108 in). Temperatures range from 8 to 40 °C (46 to 104 °F) with an average of 26 °C (79 °F). Vegetation is mostly dense rain forest (94.19%) or contact between savannah and rain forest (5.52%), with a small amount of open rain forest (0.29%). The forest includes areas that are periodically flooded, areas on the slopes and areas higher up, each with distinctive vegetation. There are some deforested areas within and immediately surrounding the forest. Some of the deforestation may have occurred before the forest was established, but recent deforestation has been detected close to areas occupied by livestock along BR-230.
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