Via Mundo

Interchange in the Nature

Recently our exchange students visited Vale Botanical Park in São Luís (MA).
This park has some of the native forest, vegetation and fauna still remaining in our ever growing city. Our students learned a bit more about our nature, as well as the threats that the urban development can bring to it.

Opened in 2008, Vale Botanical Park in São Luís covers an area of approximately 100 hectares in Ponta da Madeira Industrial Port Complex.

The park protects one of the last remaining fragments of forest on São Luís Island. Tropical tree species found in the park include Pau-marfim, Pequi, Angelim, Kapok, Buritizeiro and Juçareira.

The park also attracts animals such as the tufted capuchin, margay, sloth, agouti, yellow armadillo, paca and southern tamandua, as well as birds such as the ruby-topaz hummingbird, sparkling violetear and blue-winged macaw. Vale Botanical Park in São Luís has a tree nursery, three ecological trails and three thematic modules illustrating ecosystems in Maranhão.