The Marapendi Natural Municipal Park ( Parque Natural Municipal de Marapendi
is a municipal nature park, a public recreation facility of approximately within the Marapendi Natural Reserve (, located in the

Barra da Tijuca Barra da Tijuca () (usually known as Barra) is an upper-middle class neighborhood or bairro in the Rio de Janeiro#West Zone, West Zone of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, located in the western portion of the city on the Atlantic Ocean. Barra is well known ...

and

Recreio Recreio is a municipality in the state of Minas Gerais in the Southeast region of Brazil. See also *List of municipalities in Minas Gerais This is a list of the municipalities in the States of Brazil, state of Minas Gerais, Minas Gerais (MG), l ...

neighborhoods of

Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro, or simply Rio, is the capital of the Rio de Janeiro (state), state of Rio de Janeiro. It is the List of cities in Brazil by population, second-most-populous city in Brazil (after São Paulo) and the Largest cities in the America ...

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and part of a protected area for the preservation of native plants and animals. The park is part of the

Carioca Mosaic The Carioca Mosaic () is a protected area mosaic in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It includes various federal, state and municipal conservation units in and around the city of Rio de Janeiro. History The Carioca Mosaic was created by ord ...

, established in 2011.

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* Geography of Rio de Janeiro (city) Parks in Rio de Janeiro (city) Municipal nature parks of Brazil {{Brazil-protected-area-stub