Uatumã Biological Reserve

Uatumã Biological Reserve is a nature reserve around the river Uatumã in the state of Amazonas in Brazil.[1]

The reserve was established in 1990 in the municipalities of São Sebastião do Uatumã and Itapiranga,[2] and covered 560,000 hectares (2,200 sq mi);[3] though the Unión Internacional para la Conservación de la Naturaleza y de los Recursos Naturales (UICN) report of 2010 states it covers 940,358 hectares (3,630.74 sq mi).[4]

References

  1. "Uatumã Biological Reserve". Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia - INPA. Retrieved 7 March 2012.
  2. "Uatumã Reserve". IDESAM. 2010. Retrieved 7 March 2012.
  3. The World Conservation Monitoring Centre, The World Conservation Monitoring Centre ... for the 4th World Congress on National; 1992, Protected Areas, Caracas, Venezuela, 10–21 February (1992). "Annex". Protected areas of the world. Gland [u.a.]: IUCN. ISBN 978-2-8317-0093-9. 560,000 1990
  4. Paúl Cisneros; James McBreen (March 2010). Superposición de territorios indígenas y áreas protegidas en América del Sur (PDF). La Unión Internacional para la Conservación de la Naturaleza. p. 27. Retrieved 7 March 2012.