Tumucumaque Mountains National Park
national park of Brazil
The Tumucumaque Mountains National Park (Portuguese: Parque Nacional Montanhas do Tumucumaque; Portuguese pronunciation: [tumukuˈmaki]) is situated in the Amazon rainforest in the Brazilian states of Amapá and Pará. It is bordered to the north by French Guiana and Suriname.
History
Tumucumaque was declared a national park on August 23, 2002, by the Government of Brazil, after collaboration with the WWF.
It is part of the Amapá Biodiversity Corridor, created in 2003.
The conservation unit is supported by the Amazon Region Protected Areas Program. Its Management Plan was published on March 10, 2010.
Geography
Tumucumaque Mountains National Park has an area of more than 38,800 square kilometres (14,980 sq mi), making it the world's largest tropical forest national park and larger than Belgium. This area even reaches 59,000 square kilometres (22,780 sq mi) when including the bordering Guiana Amazonian Park, a national park in French Guiana.
This combination of protected areas is still smaller than the three national parks system in the Brazil-Venezuelan border, where the Parima-Tapirapeco, Serranía de la Neblina and Pico da Neblina national parks have a combined area of over 73,000 square kilometres (28,190 sq mi).
But the latter is certainly smaller if the Tumucumaque Mountains National Park (Brazil) and the adjacent Guiana Amazonian Park (France) is combined with large neighbouring protected areas in northern Pará, Brazil, such as Grão-Pará Ecological Station, Maicuru Biological Reserve, and many others. The importance is that this makes the Guiana Shield one of the best protected and largest ecological corridor of tropical rainforests in the world.
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Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q575822. VIAF identifies the subject as 11150323642009970370. Authority coordinates are 1.833, -54.000. 2 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2002, 2003 and 2010.
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