Jutaí-Solimões Ecological Station
ecological station in Amazonas, Brazil
The Jutaí-Solimões Ecological Station (Portuguese: Estação Ecológica de Jutaí-Solimões) is an ecological station in the state of Amazonas, Brazil. It protects an area of flooded and terra firme forest in the Amazon biome.
Location
The Ecological Station covers 289,511 hectares (715,400 acres) in the Amazonia biome.
The station lies between the Jutaí and Solimões rivers.
It covers parts of the municipalities of Amaturá, Jutaí, Santo Antônio do Içá and Tonantins in the state of Amazonas.
It is bounded to the east by the Rio Jutaí Extractive Reserve, on the opposite side of the Jutaí River, and to the west by the Javari-Buriti Area of Relevant Ecological Interest.
The Betânia Indigenous Territory overlaps the western part of the ESEC and the São Domingos do Jacapari e Estação Indigenous Territory overlaps the northern part.
History
The Jutaí-Solimões Ecological Reserve by federal decree 88.541 of 21 July 1983.
Ordnance 375 of 11 October 2001 recategorized the ecological reserve as an ecological station with the present name.
The Ecological Station is a "strict nature reserve" under IUCN protected area category Ia.
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