Emas National Park

UNESCO World Heritage Site
Cerrado Protected Areas: Chapada dos Veadeiros and Emas National Parks
Name as inscribed on the World Heritage List
Type Natural
Criteria ix, x
Reference 1035
UNESCO region Latin America and the Caribbean
Inscription history
Inscription 2001 (25th Session)
Location of Emas National Park in Brazil.

The Emas National Park (Portuguese: Parque Nacional das Emas, literally meaning "Rhea National Park") is a national park and a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the states of Goiás and Mato Grosso do Sul in Brazil.[1]

Description

The National Park is located between the states of Goiás and Mato Grosso do Sul in the Center-West Region of Brazil, between 17º50’—18º15’S and 52º39’—53º10’W. It covers 1,320 square kilometres (510 sq mi) of cerrado savannah.[1] The surrounding area is dominated by large soybean plantations.

Flora and fauna

Emas National Park shows a typical cerrado ecosystem; a treeless savannah with tall termite houses and an interesting amount of wildlife: the giant anteater, the maned wolf, giant armadillo, pampas deer[2] and the namesake greater rhea, among others.

Emas National Park also holds a small Jaguar population, perhaps consisting of about 10-12 animals. Only about 40% of the reserve, which covers 1,320 square kilometres (510 sq mi) in total, is good Jaguar habitat.[3]

Other larger mammals include puma, ocelot, Brazilian tapir, collared peccary, white-lipped peccary, marsh deer, red brocket, gray brocket, black howler monkey and capybara.[2]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Cerrado Protected Areas: Chapada dos Veadeiros and Emas National Parks". Paris, France: UNESCO. 2015. Retrieved 2015-07-04.
  2. 1 2 Flavio H.G. Rodrigues, Leandro Silveira, Anah T .A. Jacomo, Ana Paula Carmignotto, Alexandra M.R. Bezerra, Daniela Cunha Coelho, Hamilton Garbogini, Juliana Pagnozzi, Adriani Hass. Composi~ao e caracteriza~ao da fauna de mamfferos do Parque Nacional das Emas, Goias, Brasil.Revta bras. Zool. 19 (2): 589 - 600, 2002. online PDF
  3. ↑ Thannya Nascimento Soares, Mariana P.C. Telles, Lucileide V. Resende, Leandro Silveira, Anah Tereza A. Jácomo, Ronaldo G. Morato, José Alexandre F. Diniz-Filho, Eduardo Eizirik, Rosana P.V. Brondani and Claudio Brondani: Paternity testing and behavioral ecology: A case study of jaguars (Panthera onca) in Emas National Park, Central Brazil. Genetics and Molecular Biology, 29, 4, 735-740 (2006). online PDF

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Coordinates: 18°05′S 52°55′W / 18.083°S 52.917°W / -18.083; -52.917

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