Ja? National Park

(parque nacional do Ja?) is located in the Amazonas state in Brazil,
It is the largest forest reserve in South America, covering an area greater than 5.6 million acres (23,000 km?). Entry into the park is restricted; express permission from the Brazilian government is required to enter the reserve.
Ja? National Park is approximately 200km north-west of Manaus, within the Rio Negro watershed of the Amazonian central plain. It extends 340km west of the confluence of the Ja? and Negro rivers between 1?40?- 3?00?S and 61?26?- 64?00?W. Its southern boundary is the right banks of the Jau and Carabinani rivers; its southwestern and western boundary is the divide defining the watershed of the Rio Jau; its northern boundary is the left banks of the Igarape Maruim, Paunini and Unini rivers back to the Rio Negro, the left bank of which forms the Park?s eastern boundary as far as the mouth of Rio Jau.
It protects the entire watershed of the Ja? River, one of the best examples of a blackwater ecosystem, where the water is coloured by acidic decomposing organic matter, and a large area of undisturbed dry tropical forest. The park protects both the hydrological basin of the river, and many of the species associated with the system in an area large enough to contain major ecological and biological processes such as wind-blows, floods and natural burns, providing large-scale opportunities to study their effect on the biodiversity of natural ecosystems.
The park is known as a good example of tropical rainforest conservation in the Amazon. It houses spotted jaguars, manatees, pink river dolphins, and numerous other species of animals and plants.
FLORA The tall dry forest is part of the continuous forest of the Amazon central plain. Its landscape is typical of the lower Rio Negro as:
a) Dense tropical forest, mainly on unflooded terra firme, generally very stratified, with a layer of large emergent trees and averaging 180 plant species per hectare.
b) Open tropical igap? seasonally flooded forest, associated with wide soil and climatic transitions. This is characterised by low trees with thin trunks, with many bromeliad and orchid epiphytes; it grows on sandy nutrient-poor soils and averages 108 plant species per hectare.
c) Campinarana, a tall dry shrub-woodland mosaic restricted to the Rio Negro region which grows primarily in well drained uplands. The largest component of this is the arboreal Rio Negro caatinga. It is dominated by tall trees and epiphytes and lianas are very rare. Within each of these macrohabitats is a variety of vegetation types including chavascai swamp and grassland.

FAUNA The Park protects an impressive range of fauna, with many species associated with blackwater river systems. There is high diversity with 120 species of mammals, including 20 species of rodents and marsupials, 470birds, said to be approximately two-thirds of the birds recorded from the Central Amazon, 15 reptiles and 320 fishes which are about two-thirds of the fish species recorded in the Rio Negro watershed.

Tours to Ja? National Park are organized by boat. You can choose the accommodations between hammocks or cabin with bed.
Departures will be at 06:30 am and returns at 06:00 pm.
On this program the activities will be very flexible depending to your interests and also weather condition. We organize minimum 7 days expeditions with the following activities:
-See the Meeting of the waters (Rio Negro and Solim?es), swimming with the fresh water dolphins, Bird watching, piranha fishing, paddle canoe trip, alligator spotting, visit and sleep with native families, canoe trip at night, camping in the jungle, jungle trek,

We need to request the permission to visit the Ja? National Park, minimum 4 days before the departure, we recommend to reserve at least 6 days before your arrival in Manaus.