Pantanal Conservation Area
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How it came to be
The Pantanal is a vast wetland in the centre of South America whose plains flood with the seasons. On 24 September 1981 Decree 86.392 created the Pantanal Matogrossense National Park, 135,606 hectares at the south-western corner of Mato Grosso. It was designated a Ramsar wetland on 24 May 1993. Three neighbouring special reserves, Acurizal, Penha and Dorochê, are managed by the Ecotropica Foundation.
In 2000 the park and the three reserves, together 187,818 hectares, were inscribed. They make up about 1.3 per cent of Brazil's Pantanal and lie at the headwaters of the Cuiabá and Paraguay rivers, where the Amolar ridge rises to about 900 metres straight out of the floodplain. Some 80 mammal, 650 bird, 50 reptile and 300 fish species are recorded, among them the jaguar and the hyacinth macaw. Dams that alter the flow of water and the canalling of watercourses are listed among the threats.
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