Silva Jardim

Silva Jardim
Silva Jardim
Municipality
	Município de Silva Jardim
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	Location of Silva Jardim in the state of Rio de Janeiro
	Silva Jardim Location of Silva Jardim in Brazil
	Coordinates: 22°39′03″S 42°23′31″W / 22.65083°S 42.39194°WCoordinates: 22°39′03″S 42°23′31″W / 22.65083°S 42.39194°W
Country	Brazil
Region	Southeast
State	Rio de Janeiro
Government
• Prefeito	Anderson Alexandre (PMDB)
Area
• Total	938.336 km2 (362.294 sq mi)
Elevation	35 m (115 ft)
Population (2020 )
• Total	21,774
Time zone	UTC-3 (UTC-3)
Website	[2]

Silva Jardim (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈsiwvɐ ʒaʁˈdʒĩ]) is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro. Its population was 21,774 (2020) and its area is 938 km².^[2]

Conservation[]

The municipality contains the 5,052 hectares (12,480 acres) Poço das Antas Biological Reserve, a strictly protected conservation unit created in 1974 from a former experimental agricultural station.^[3] It contains 7.5% of the 46,350 hectares (114,500 acres) Três Picos State Park, created in 2002.^[4] It contains part of the Central Rio de Janeiro Atlantic Forest Mosaic of conservation units, created in 2006.^[5]

References[]

^ IBGE 2020
^ IBGE - [1]
^ Unidade de Conservação: Reserva Biológica de Poço das Antas (in Portuguese), MMA: Ministério do Meio Ambiente, retrieved 2016-04-28
^ PES dos Três Picos (in Portuguese), ISA: Instituto Socioambiental, retrieved 2016-10-03
^ Costa, Cláudia; Lamas, Ivana; Fernandes, Rosan (December 2010), Planejamento Estratégico do Mosaico Central Fluminense (PDF) (in Portuguese), Reserva da Biosfera da Mata Atlântica, p. 13, retrieved 2016-10-02