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Jurubatiba Park


The (sandland )  Jurubatiba  National Park was founded  in April  1998. It has an area of 14.000  hectares  touching in extension the Municipals  of  Macaé,  Quissamã and Carapebus. Having a wide variety of flora and fauna, some in extinction, being that these species only exist within the park. The  region of the park is unique and still  presents  the characteristics of when the Portuguese arrived in Brasil. Jurubatiba’s  Park diversity is so great that  within it, vestiges of Northeast  bush  and Amazon Forest still exist there. Animals such as alligators,  otters,  capibaras, armadillos and anteaters and an expressive number of birds and fish, still little known  and studied inhabit there.