Serra do Mar State Park

Serra do Mar State Park
Parque Estadual da Serra do Mar
IUCN category II (national park)
Location	Caraguatatuba, Cunha, São Paulo, Juquitiba, Mongaguá, Itanhaém, Cubatão, Pedro de Toledo, Ubatuba, São Luiz do Paraitinga, São Sebastião
Coordinates	23°21′S 45°08′W
Area	332,000 hectares (820,000 acres)
Designation	State park
Created	1977
Administrator	Fundação Florestal

Serra do Mar State Park (Portuguese: Parque Estadual da Serra do Mar) is a state park in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. It is 315,000 hectares (780,000 acres) in size. It is in the Serra do Mar mountain range. It is one of the largest remaining areas of continuous Atlantic Forest.

Place

Cachoeira da Usina, in São Paulo city

The Serra do Mar State Park was made in 1977 when people built the BR-101 highway. The park was made bigger in 2010. The park is 332,000 hectares (820,000 acres) in size in 25 municipalities. It is the largest Atlantic Forest protected area in Brazil. The park has some people living in it, traditional communities of quilombolas, Amerindians, caipiras and caiçaras. There are cliffs in the park. It is part of the 221,754 hectares (547,970 acres) Bocaina Mosaic, which was made in 2006.

Conservation

People from the Forestry Foundation of São Paulo take care of the park. The Foundation is with the São Paulo Secretariat of State for the Environment. Hundreds of species of birds and other animals live in the park. The water in the park goes into the São Paulo town and city, Baixada Santista, Litoral Norte, and the Paraíba Valley. The park also keeps the mountain healthy.

Sources

• Mosaico de Unidades de Conservação da Bocaina - SP e RJ (PDF) (in Portuguese), RBMA, retrieved 2016-09-22
• Sobre o Parque Estadual Serra do Mar (in Portuguese), Fundação Florestal, archived from the original on 2021-05-06, retrieved 2016-06-12