Qualla: Matupiri State Park https://qualla.com/matupiri-state-park 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/x/h/6/matupiri-state-park-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Matupiri State Park https://qualla.com/matupiri-state-park Matupiri State Park: Introduction https://qualla.com/matupiri-state-park/ Photo credit Brazil_location_map.svg: NordNordWest derivative work: Виктор В (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. Creating a state park usually means fencing people out. At Matupiri, Brazil tried something different. The 513,747-hectare reserve between the Purus and Madeira rivers was declared in 2009 to protect a stretch of rainforest and a rare corridor of Amazonian campina - woodland savanna within the jungle - and when park officials began surveying the territory, they found what they had not expected to find. House structures. Signs of woodcutting. Capoeira - secondary growth vegetation that marks where people have cleared and then moved on. The Mura had been using this land for generations. Rather than evict them, the park's management plan did something that had no legal precedent in Brazil: it recognized an indigenous special use zone inside a state park.

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/x/h/6/matupiri-state-park-wp/6xh6-matupiri-state-park-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Matupiri State Park: A Forest Between Two Rivers https://qualla.com/matupiri-state-park/ Photo credit Brazil_location_map.svg: NordNordWest derivative work: Виктор В (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. The park sits in the Purus-Madeira interfluvial - the wedge of forest between two of the Amazon's great southern tributaries. The Matupiri River threads through the center, running from southwest to northeast, and it is the only practical way into the park's interior. To the sout...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/x/h/6/matupiri-state-park-wp/6xh6-matupiri-state-park-a-forest-between-two-rivers.mp3 0:06 2 full Matupiri State Park: The Campina Mystery https://qualla.com/matupiri-state-park/ Photo credit Brazil_location_map.svg: NordNordWest derivative work: Виктор В (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. Ninety-one percent of the park is dense lowland rainforest with emergent canopy trees - the standard Amazon tall-tree biome. But the remaining seven percent is something unusual: grassy wooded savanna, called Amazon campina, without gallery forest. The campina exists in patches s...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/x/h/6/matupiri-state-park-wp/6xh6-matupiri-state-park-the-campina-mystery.mp3 0:06 3 full Matupiri State Park: The Mura and the Decree https://qualla.com/matupiri-state-park/ Photo credit Brazil_location_map.svg: NordNordWest derivative work: Виктор В (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. Amazonas state decree 28424, issued on March 27, 2009, created the park. A 2006 study that led to the decision had barely accounted for the Mura who lived along the Matupiri River. The study noted them mostly for what it called invading fishing lakes in the nearby Igapo-Acu reser...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/x/h/6/matupiri-state-park-wp/6xh6-matupiri-state-park-the-mura-and-the-decree.mp3 0:06 4 full Matupiri State Park: What the Mura Use https://qualla.com/matupiri-state-park/ Photo credit Brazil_location_map.svg: NordNordWest derivative work: Виктор В (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. For the Mura, the park is not wilderness. It is a multi-generational resource base. They cut wood here to build canoes and houses. They gather Brazil nuts when the capsules fall in the dry season, cracking them open with machetes. They harvest copaiba oil and andiroba oil - both ...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/x/h/6/matupiri-state-park-wp/6xh6-matupiri-state-park-what-the-mura-use.mp3 0:06 5 full Matupiri State Park: An Innovative Management Plan https://qualla.com/matupiri-state-park/ Photo credit Brazil_location_map.svg: NordNordWest derivative work: Виктор В (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. Brazil had no legal precedent for allowing indigenous people to use the resources of a state park. Colombia and Peru had developed principles for similar situations. The Matupiri management plan, approved on July 22, 2014, adapted those principles into Brazilian law for the first...

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