Colniza

Colniza
Municipality
The Municipality of Colniza
Coat of arms
Location of Colniza
Coordinates: 09°32′38″S 57°26′56″W
Country	Brazil
Region	Central-West
State	Mato Grosso
Founded	November 26, 1998
Government
• Mayor	Sergio Bastos Dos Santos (PMBD)
Area
• Total	27,947.646 km2 (10,790.646 sq mi)
Elevation	0 m (0 ft)
Population  (2020 )
• Total	39,861
• Density	0.5/km2 (1.3/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC−3 (BRT)

Colniza is a municipality in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil.

Demographics

Colniza has the highest homicide rate in Brazil with 165 deaths per year per 100 thousand inhabitants. It is the westernmost and largest (by area) municipality of the state.

Conservation

The municipality of Colniza has a mosaic of conservation units consisting of the Rio Madeirinha Ecological Station, the Rio Roosevelt Ecological Station, the Tucumã State Park and the Guariba-Roosevelt Extractive Reserve.

Satellite monitoring showed that Colniza had the highest level of deforestation in Mato Grosso in the six years from 2010 to 2016, with 78,556 hectares (194,120 acres) cleared, most of it illegally. Rates of deforestation rose successively in 2013, 2014 and 2015.

The 13,683-hectare (33,810-acre) Rio Madeirinha Ecological Station is a fully protected environmental unit created in 1997. The 96,925-hectare (239,510-acre) Rio Roosevelt Ecological Station is a strictly protected conservation unit created in 1997. The 164,224-hectare (405,810-acre) Guariba-Roosevelt Extractive Reserve is a sustainable use unit created in 1996. The municipality also contains 3,641-hectare (9,000-acre) of the Campos Amazônicos National Park, a 961,318-hectare (2,375,470-acre) protected area created in 2006 that protects an unusual enclave of cerrado vegetation in the Amazon rainforest. It contains 44% of the 227,817-hectare (562,950-acre) Igarapés do Juruena State Park, created in 2002.

Sources

• "Câmara Setorial mantém área da Resex Guariba-Roosevelt, em Colniza", Portal Amazonia (in Portuguese), 17 March 2016, archived from the original on 25 June 2016, retrieved 2016-06-07
• ESEC do Rio Madeirinha (in Portuguese), ISA: Instituto Socioambiental, retrieved 2016-06-05{{citation}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)
• ESEC do Rio Roosevelt (in Portuguese), ISA: Instituto Socioambiental, retrieved 2016-05-26{{citation}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)
• Lisandra Paraguassú (2007-02-28), Pequenas cidades, muitos crimes (in Portuguese), O Estado de S. Paulo, retrieved 2008-01-25
• PARNA dos Campos Amazônicos (in Portuguese), ISA: Instituto Socioambiental, retrieved 2016-06-03{{citation}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)
• PES Igarapés do Juruena (in Portuguese), ISA: Instituto Socioambiental, retrieved 2016-07-11{{citation}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)
• RESEX Guariba-Roosevelt (in Portuguese), ISA: Instituto Socioambiental, retrieved 2016-06-07{{citation}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)
• Tom Phillips (2008-01-25), Amazon's rescue reversed, The Guardian, retrieved 2008-01-25