The Rio Pardinho e Rio Vermelho Environmental Protection Area ( pt, Área de Proteção Ambiental do Rio Pardinho e do Rio Vermelho) is an environmental protection area in the state of

São Paulo São Paulo (, ; Portuguese for 'Saint Paul') is the most populous city in Brazil, and is the capital of the state of São Paulo, the most populous and wealthiest Brazilian state, located in the country's Southeast Region. Listed by the Ga ...

, Brazil.

Location

The Rio Pardinho e Rio Vermelho Environmental Protection Area (APA) is in the municipality of

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, São Paulo. It has an area of . It is in the

Atlantic Forest The Atlantic Forest ( pt, Mata Atlântica) is a South American forest that extends along the Atlantic coast of Brazil from Rio Grande do Norte state in the northeast to Rio Grande do Sul state in the south and inland as far as Paraguay and t ...

biome, originally covered by dense rainforest.

History

The Rio Pardinho e Rio Vermelho Environmental Protection Area was created by state law 12.810 of 21 February 2008. This law broke up the old

Jacupiranga State Park The Jacupiranga State Park ( pt, Parque Estadual de Jacupiranga) was a state park in São Paulo, Brazil. It covered a large, mountainous region that included untouched Atlantic Forest and land occupied by traditional communities. When the park wa ...

and created the

Jacupiranga Mosaic The Jacupiranga Mosaic ( pt, Mosaico do Jacupiranga) is a protected area mosaic of 14 units, located in the Atlantic Forest biome within the state of São Paulo of southeastern Brazil. It is centered on the former Jacupiranga State Park. History ...

with 14 conservation units. The APA is administered by the São Paulo Forestry Foundation (Fundação para Conservação e a Produção Florestal do Estado de São Paulo).

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