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.