The Bacia dos Frades Environmental Protection Area (Portuguese: Área de Proteção Ambiental Bacia dos Frades) is an environmental protection area in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Location

The Bacia dos Frades Environmental Protection Area (APA) is in the municipality of Teresópolis, Rio de Janeiro. It has an area of 7,500 hectares (19,000 acres).

History

The Bacia dos Frades Environmental Protection Area was created by state law 1.755 of 27 November 1990. It had an area of 6,882.14 hectares (17,006.1 acres). The APA was included in the Central Rio de Janeiro Atlantic Forest Mosaic, created in 2006. On 31 October 2013 state law 6.573 extinguished the Paraíso Ecological Station and the Floresta do Jacarandá Environmental Protection Area, and modified the Bacia dos Frades Environmental Protection Area and the Três Picos State Park.

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Sources

  • (in Portuguese), INEA: Instituto Estadual do Ambiente, archived from on 2016-10-05{{citation}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)
  • Costa, Cláudia; Lamas, Ivana; Fernandes, Rosan (December 2010), (PDF) (in Portuguese), Reserva da Biosfera da Mata Atlântica, archived from (PDF) on 2016-10-07
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  • (in Portuguese), INEA: Instituto Estadual do Ambiente, archived from on 2018-12-29{{citation}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)