Matupiri State Park
| Matupiri State Park | |
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| Parque Estadual do Matupiri | |
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IUCN category II (national park)
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| Nearest city | Manicoré, Amazonas |
| Coordinates | 5°13′20″S 61°18′52″W / 5.22223°S 61.314489°WCoordinates: 5°13′20″S 61°18′52″W / 5.22223°S 61.314489°W |
| Area | 513,747 hectares (1,269,500 acres) |
| Designation | State park |
| Created | 22 July 2014 |
| Administrator | Secretaria de Estado do Meio Ambiente do Amazonas |
Matupiri State Park (Portuguese: Parque Estadual do Matupiri) is a state park in the state of Amazonas, Brazil. It protects a rich area of Amazon rainforest and an ecologically important area of woodland savanna along the Matupiri River. Unusually for a state park, it includes an "indigenous special use zone" that allows the Mura people to continue to fish and extract forest products, as they have for many generations.
Matupiri State Park is divided between the municipalities of Borba (9.95%) and Manicoré (90.05%) in the state of Amazonas. It has an area of 513,747 hectares (1,269,500 acres). The park is to the south of the BR-319 highway. It is in the Médio Madeira microregion of Amazonas.
The park is in the Purus - Madeira inter-fluvial region, in the basins of the Matupiri and Amapá rivers. The Matupiri river runs through the centre of the park from southwest to northeast, and provides the main way to access the interior of the park. To the southeast it adjoins the Rio Madeira Sustainable Development Reserve. To the south it adjoins the PAE Jenipapo settlement. To the southwest it is bounded by the AM-464 highway, and borders the Rio Amapá Sustainable Development Reserve. To the north it borders the Igapó-Açu Sustainable Development Reserve, which contains the zone affected by BR-319. To the northeast it adjoins the Cunhã-Sapucaia Indigenous Territory and the Matupiri Sustainable Development Reserve.
The park is part of an important ecological corridor in the region between the Purus and Madeira rivers in combination with the Nascentes do Lago Jari National Park, Apurinã do Igarapé Tauamirim Indigenous Territory, Abufari Biological Reserve and Piagaçu-Purus Sustainable Development Reserve on the Purus River and the Lago do Capanã Grande Extractive Reserve and Rio Amapá Sustainable Development Reserve near the Madeira.
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