Establishment of Tumucumaque National Park

Tumucumaque Mountains National Park, in the northern Brazilian state of Amapa, is one of the largest tropical forest national parks in the world. It was created by Brazil's government as part of an effort to protect large areas of the Amazon, and it adjoins the border with French Guiana and Suriname. The park lies on the Guiana Shield, an ancient geological formation, and is covered by dense, mostly untouched rainforest, with granite hills and rivers. It shelters jaguars, giant otters, harpy eagles, tapirs and many monkeys, as well as plants found nowhere else. Few people live in the park, and access is difficult, which has helped to preserve it, although it remains little studied.

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