Colniza is a municipality in the

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Mato Grosso Mato Grosso ( – ) is one of the states of Brazil, the List of Brazilian states by area, third largest by area, located in the Central-West Region, Brazil, Central-West region. The state has 1.66% of the Brazilian population and is responsible ...

, Brazil.

Demographics

Colniza has the highest

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in Brazil with 165 deaths per year per 100 thousand inhabitants. It is the westernmost and largest (by area) municipality of the state.

Conservation

The municipality of Colniza has a mosaic of conservation units consisting of the

Rio Madeirinha Ecological Station Rio Madeirinha Ecological Station () is an ecological station (ESEC) in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil. Location The Rio Madeirinha Ecological Station has an area of about in the municipality of Colniza, Mato Grosso. It is in the north west ...

, the

Rio Roosevelt Ecological Station The Rio Roosevelt Ecological Station () is an ecological station in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil. Location The Rio Roosevelt Ecological Station (ESEC) has an area of . It is in the municipality of Colniza in the state of Mato Grosso. It is ...

, the

Tucumã State Park The Tucumã State Park () is a State park (Brazil), state park in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil. Location The Tucumã State Park is in the Colniza municipality of Mato Grosso. It has an area of . The park is bounded by the border with the sta ...

and the

Guariba-Roosevelt Extractive Reserve The Guariba-Roosevelt Extractive Reserve () is an extractive reserve in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil. A small traditional population live through fishing, hunting, small-scale agriculture and sale of forest products such as nuts. The reserve i ...

. Satellite monitoring showed that Colniza had the highest level of deforestation in Mato Grosso in the six years from 2010 to 2016, with cleared, most of it illegally. Rates of deforestation rose successively in 2013, 2014 and 2015. The Rio Madeirinha Ecological Station is a fully protected environmental unit created in 1997. The Rio Roosevelt Ecological Station is a strictly protected conservation unit created in 1997. The Guariba-Roosevelt Extractive Reserve is a sustainable use unit created in 1996. The municipality also contains of the

Campos Amazônicos National Park The Campos Amazônicos National Park () is a National park in the states of Rondônia, Amazonas and Mato Grosso, Brazil. Location The Campos Amazônicos National Park covers parts of the municipalities of Novo Aripuanã (66.69%), Manicoré ( ...

, a protected area created in 2006 that protects an unusual enclave of

cerrado The Cerrado () is a vast ecoregion of Tropics, tropical savanna in central Brazil, being present in the states of Goiás, Mato Grosso do Sul, Mato Grosso, Tocantins, Maranhão, Piauí, Bahia, Minas Gerais, São Paulo (state), São Paulo, Paraná ...

vegetation in the Amazon rainforest. It contains 44% of the Igarapés do Juruena State Park, created in 2002.

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