Cajati_Environmental_Protection_Area

Cajati Environmental Protection Area

Cajati Environmental Protection Area

Protected area in São Paulo, Brazil

The Cajati Environmental Protection Area (Portuguese: Área de Proteção Ambiental de Cajati) is an environmental protection area in the state of São Paulo, Brazil.

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Location

The Cajati Environmental Protection Area is in the municipality of Cajati, São Paulo. It has an area of 2,976 hectares (7,350 acres).[1] It is in the Atlantic Forest biome, Vegetation is dense rainforest.[2] Hunting, fishing and sale of land are prohibited.[3]

History

The Cajati Environmental Protection Area was created by state law 12.810 of 21 February 2008 with an area of 2,975.71 hectares (7,353.1 acres).[4] This law broke up the old Jacupiranga State Park and created the Jacupiranga Mosaic with 14 conservational units.[5]

Notes

    1. [1]
      APA de Cajati – ISA, Informações gerais.
    2. [2]
      Sobre a Área de Proteção – SAP.
    3. [3]
      APA de Cajati – Fundação Florestal.
    4. [4]
      APA de Cajati – ISA, Historico Juridico.
    5. [5]
      Zanchetta & Bedeschi 2008.

    Sources

    • APA de Cajati (PDF) (in Portuguese), Fundação Florestal SP, archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-11-27, retrieved 2016-11-26
    • APA de Cajati (in Portuguese), ISA: Instituto Socioambiental, retrieved 2016-11-26
    • Sobre a Área de Proteção (in Portuguese), SAP: Sistema Ambiental Paulista, retrieved 2016-11-26
    • Zanchetta, Inês; Bedeschi, Luciana (28 February 2008), Mosaico do Jacupiranga, no Vale do Ribeira, agora é lei (in Portuguese), ISA: Instituto Socioambiental, archived from the original on 2016-11-21, retrieved 2016-11-20
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