The Cuinarana Marine Extractive Reserve () is a coastal marine

extractive reserve An extractive reserve ( or RESEX) is a type of sustainable use protected area in Brazil. The land is publicly owned, but the people who live there have the right to traditional extractive practices, such as hunting, fishing and harvesting wild pla ...

in the state of

Pará Pará () is a Federative units of Brazil, state of Brazil, located in northern Brazil and traversed by the lower Amazon River. It borders the Brazilian states of Amapá, Maranhão, Tocantins (state), Tocantins, Mato Grosso, Amazonas (Brazilian st ...

, Brazil.

Location

The Cuinarana Marine Extractive Reserve is in the municipality of

Magalhães Barata Magalhães Barata is a municipality in the state of Pará in the Northern region of Brazil. The municipality contains the Cuinarana Marine Extractive Reserve, created in 2014. The Cuinarana River originates near the municipal headquarters. It ...

, Pará. It has an area of . The reserve protects the mangroves between the east bank of the Marapanim River and the west bank of the Cuinarana River. The Mestre Lucindo Marine Extractive Reserve lies to the west and the Maracanã Marine Extractive Reserve lies to the east.

History

The Cuinarana Marine Extractive Reserve was created by federal decree on 10 October 2014. The reserve is one of three created by president

Dilma Rousseff Dilma Vana Rousseff (; born 14 December 1947) is a Brazilian economist and politician who served as the 36th president of Brazil from 2011 until her impeachment and removal from office on 31 August 2016. She is the only woman to have held the ...

thirteen days before the 2014 presidential elections. The other two are the Mocapajuba and Mestre Lucindo marine extractive reserves, both also in Pará. The

Araí-Peroba Marine Extractive Reserve The Araí-Peroba Marine Extractive Reserve () is a coastal marine extractive reserve in the state of Pará, Brazil. Location The Araí-Peroba Marine Extractive Reserve is in the municipality of Augusto Corrêa, Pará. It has an area of . It pro ...

was expanded by . The reserve is administered by the

Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation The Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation ( Portuguese: ''Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade'', ICMBio) is a government agency under the administration of the Brazilian Ministry of the Environment. It is nam ...

(ICMBio). It is classed as

IUCN protected area category IUCN protected area categories, or IUCN protected area management categories, are categories used to classify protected areas in a system developed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The enlisting of such areas is part ...

VI (protected area with sustainable use of natural resources). The objective is to conserve the biodiversity of the ecosystems of mangroves, salt marshes, dunes, wetlands, floodplains, rivers, estuaries and islands; and to protect the livelihoods and culture of the traditional extractive population, and ensure the sustainable use of natural resources of the unit.

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* * * * {{authority control Marine extractive reserves of Brazil Protected areas of Pará 2014 establishments in Brazil Protected areas established in 2014