The Bananal Ecological Station () is an
Ecological station in the state of
São Paulo
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, Brazil.
Location
The Bananal Ecological Station is in the municipality of
Bananal, São Paulo
Município da Estância Turística de Bananal is a city in the state of São Paulo (state), São Paulo in Brazil. It is part of the Metropolitan Region of Vale do Paraíba e Litoral Norte. The population is 10,993 (2020 est.) in an area of .
Geog ...
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It has an area of .
It is in a region of the Serra da Bocaina with sharp relief.
Altitudes range from .
It is part of the
Bocaina Mosaic, created in 2006.
Visitors must obtain permission from the station's management, who will assign an employee as a guide.
There is a short trail to the last fall of the Sete Quedas waterfalls, a scenic attraction.
Environment
The climate is humid subtropical, with three dry months in the year.
Average annual rainfall is .
Average annual temperature is .
Maximum average temperature in and minimum average temperature is .
The ecological station contains remnants of
Atlantic Forest.
Vegetation includes cloud forest and dense montane and submontane rainforest.
Two new species of
bromeliad
The Bromeliaceae (the bromeliads) are a Family (biology), family of monocot flowering plants of about 80 genera and 3700 known species, native mainly to the Tropics, tropical Americas, with several species found in the American subtropics and on ...
have only been found in the station, ''
Neoregelia pontuali'' and ''
Wittrockia corallina''.
History
The Bananal State Forest Reserve was created by state decree 43.193 of 3 April 1964 to conserve the forest and preserve the flora and fauna.
On 12 March 1987 governor
André Franco Montoro
André Franco Montoro (; 14 July 1916 – 16 July 1999) was a Brazilian politician and lawyer. He was born in São Paulo as the son of André de Blois Montoro and Tomásia Alijostes. He was a senator and governor of São Paulo, winning against S ...
altered the category of the reserve to create the Bananal Ecological Station.
The station is funded in partnership between the São Paulo secretariat of the environment and the German
KfW bank.
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Ecological stations of Brazil
Protected areas of São Paulo (state)
1987 establishments in Brazil
Protected areas established in 1987
Protected areas of the Atlantic Forest