Qualla: Altamira National Forest https://qualla.com/altamira-national-forest en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:08 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/6/y/b/v/altamira-national-forest-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Altamira National Forest https://qualla.com/altamira-national-forest Altamira National Forest: Introduction https://qualla.com/altamira-national-forest/ Photo credit Brazil_location_map.svg: NordNordWest derivative work: Виктор В (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. Altamira National Forest occupies the ground where the Tapajos and the Xingu rivers decide which way their rain will run. Seven hundred twenty-four thousand hectares of open rainforest, laced with lianas, crouched on a low Amazon ridge where altitude rises only to about 180 meters above sea level. Twelve hundred millimeters of rain could fall in January alone. What makes the forest different from its neighbors is not scale - there are larger protected areas upstream and down - but the legal category it inhabits: IUCN VI, a designation that permits sustainable use of natural resources. Here, the timber is not off-limits. It is supposed to be taken slowly.

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/y/b/v/altamira-national-forest-wp/6ybv-altamira-national-forest-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Altamira National Forest: Where Two Basins Part https://qualla.com/altamira-national-forest/ Photo credit Brazil_location_map.svg: NordNordWest derivative work: Виктор В (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. A watershed is an invisible ridge that determines which ocean a raindrop reaches. In Altamira National Forest, the ridge divides the Tapajos basin from the Xingu basin - two of the Amazon's largest tributaries, running parallel for hundreds of kilometers before both empty into th...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/y/b/v/altamira-national-forest-wp/6ybv-altamira-national-forest-where-two-basins-part.mp3 0:06 2 full Altamira National Forest: Sustainable Use https://qualla.com/altamira-national-forest/ Photo credit Brazil_location_map.svg: NordNordWest derivative work: Виктор В (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. The forest was created by presidential decree on February 2, 1998, under Brazil's then-new category of protected areas that permit economic use. It is administered by the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation, the federal agency named after the rubber tapper whose ...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/y/b/v/altamira-national-forest-wp/6ybv-altamira-national-forest-sustainable-use.mp3 0:06 3 full Altamira National Forest: What the Rainforest Holds https://qualla.com/altamira-national-forest/ Photo credit Brazil_location_map.svg: NordNordWest derivative work: Виктор В (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. Rapid ecological surveys found 212 species of flora across 145 genera - not the most species-dense forest in the Amazon, but a cross-section of what the upper Xingu-Tapajos ecotone looks like. The primates of interest to researchers are two endemics: the white-cheeked spider monk...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/y/b/v/altamira-national-forest-wp/6ybv-altamira-national-forest-what-the-rainforest-holds.mp3 0:06 4 full Altamira National Forest: The Big Three https://qualla.com/altamira-national-forest/ Photo credit Brazil_location_map.svg: NordNordWest derivative work: Виктор В (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. Three Amazonian icons patrol the protected species list. Jaguars, Panthera onca, the largest cat in the Americas, move through the forest floor mostly at night, hunting capybaras, peccaries, and caimans. Giant otters, Pteronura brasiliensis, live in river family groups of six or ...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/y/b/v/altamira-national-forest-wp/6ybv-altamira-national-forest-the-big-three.mp3 0:06 5 full Altamira National Forest: The Patchwork Around It https://qualla.com/altamira-national-forest/ Photo credit Brazil_location_map.svg: NordNordWest derivative work: Виктор В (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. Altamira National Forest does not stand alone. It sits inside a mosaic of twelve sustainable-use areas and six fully protected ones, covering in total more than fourteen million hectares of adjacent forest. The fully protected neighbors include Amazonia, Jamanxim, Rio Novo, and S...

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