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Estaleiro Beach in Ubatuba, São Paulo Amethyst from Serra do Mar, on display at the Smithsonian, USA View of the Serra do Mar mountain range from Curitiba, southern Brazil. The Serra do Mar (Portuguese: [ˈsɛʁɐ du ˈmaʁ]; Portuguese for 'Sea Ridge') is a 1,500 km (930 mi) long system of mountain ranges and escarpments in Southeastern Brazil.
The Serra do Mar bristle tyrant was formally described in 1907 by the German-Brazilian naturalists Hermann von Ihering and his son Rodolpho von Ihering.They introduced a new genus, Guracava and coined the binomial name Guracava difficilis.The type locality was specified as Itatiaia in the Brazialian state of Rio de Janeiro.
The Serra do Mar State Park was created in 1977 when the BR-101 coastal highway was built, and expanded in 2010. With an area of 332,000 hectares (820,000 acres) in 25 municipalities, it is the largest Atlantic Forest protected area in Brazil.
The Serra do Mar coastal forests lie to the south, on the Atlantic side of the Serra do Mar range. The Alto Paraná Atlantic forests wrap around the north, east, and south of the Araucaria moist forests , which cover a higher-elevation portion of the plateau in Paraná, Santa Catarina, and northern Rio Grande do Sul states.
The Serra do Mar Ecological Corridor (Portuguese: Corredor Ecológico da Serra do Mar or Corredor de Biodiversidade da Serra do Mar) is a large collection of protected areas in the states of Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais, São Paulo and Paraná in southern Brazil that form an ecological corridor connecting areas of Atlantic Forest.
Brazil's Costa Verde is characterized by the Serra do Mar escarpment reaching Atlantic Ocean, creating a mountainous landscape very near the coast. It can be considered the greatest extension of Atlantic Forest biome reaching the ocean, between Baixada Fluminense (Fluminense Lowlands) and Baixada Santista (Santos Lowlands).
The Serra do Japi as seen from the city of Campinas, São Paulo at a distance of 40 kilometers (50 miles) to the south. Serra do Japi is a small mountain range located in the southeast of the state of São Paulo , with an area of 354 square kilometers (220 square miles), with the culmination reaching 1,260 meters (4133 feet) in altitude.
The Serra dos Órgãos is the name of the region of the Serra do Mar in the central part of the state of Rio de Janeiro. It covers an area of 20,024 hectares (49,480 acres). [1] The range is an escarpment on the northern edge of the Guanabara Graben between the cities of Petrópolis and Teresópolis. [2]