Trairão National Forest
| Trairão National Forest | |
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| Floresta Nacional do Trairão | |
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IUCN category VI (protected area with sustainable use of natural resources)
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| Nearest city | Itaituba, Pará |
| Coordinates | 4°54′25″S 55°32′42″W / 4.907°S 55.545°WCoordinates: 4°54′25″S 55°32′42″W / 4.907°S 55.545°W |
| Area | 257,526 hectares (636,360 acres) |
| Designation | National forest |
| Created | 13 February 2006 |
| Administrator | Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation |
Trairão National Forest (Portuguese: Floresta Nacional do Trairão) is a national forest in the state of Pará, Brazil. It contains a large area of Amazon rainforest with high biodiversity. It is a sustainable use conservation unit in which logging is allowed subject to a management plan, and was created in an effort to curb illegal deforestation in the area.
The Trairão National Forest covers 257,526 hectares (636,360 acres) of Amazonia biome. It was created on 13 February 2006 and is administered by the federal Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation. It covers parts of the municipalities of Trairão (69.2%), Rurópolis (22.0%) and Itaituba (8.8%) in the state of Pará. The main urban centres nearby are Trairão, Itaituba, Rurópolis and Santarém. It borders the Riozinho do Anfrísio Extractive Reserve to the east and the Jamanxim National Park to the south. The forest is named after the Trairão municipality, which in turn is named after the trairão (Hoplias lacerdae) fish. The area around the forest is home to 260,905 people, with a population density of 1.08 inhabitants per square kilometre.
The forest is in a region that contains 12 sustainable use conservation areas and 6 fully protected areas. The fully protected areas, which cover 6,670,422 hectares (16,482,970 acres), are the Amazônia, Jamanxim, Rio Novo and Serra do Pardo national parks, the Nascentes da Serra do Cachimbo Biological Reserve and the Terra do Meio Ecological Station. The sustainable use areas include the Tapajós environmental protection area and the Altamira, Amaná, Jamanxim, Trairão, Itaituba I, Itaituba II and Tapajós national forests, covering a total of 7,555,889 hectares (18,671,010 acres).
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