Colniza is a municipality in the
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Mato Grosso
Mato Grosso ( – lit. "Thick Bush") is one of the states of Brazil, the third largest by area, located in the Central-West region. The state has 1.66% of the Brazilian population and is responsible for 1.9% of the Brazilian GDP.
Neighborin ...
, Brazil.
Demographics
Colniza has the highest
homicide rate 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, the
Rio Roosevelt Ecological Station, the
Tucumã State Park and the
Guariba-Roosevelt Extractive Reserve
The Guariba-Roosevelt Extractive Reserve ( pt, Reserva Extrativista Guariba Roosevelt) 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 ...
.
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, a protected area created in 2006 that protects an unusual enclave of
cerrado
The ''Cerrado'' (, ) is a vast ecoregion of tropical savanna in eastern Brazil, particularly in the states of Goiás, Mato Grosso do Sul, Mato Grosso, Tocantins, Minas Gerais, and the Federal District. The core areas of the Cerrado biome are ...
vegetation in the Amazon rainforest.
It contains 44% of the
Igarapés do Juruena State Park, created in 2002.
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Municipalities in Mato Grosso
Populated places established in 1998
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