Noel Kempff Mercado National Park is a national park in northeast Santa Cruz Department, Province of José Miguel de Velasco, Bolivia, on the border with Brazil. Noel Kempff Mercado National Park covers 1,523,446 hectares of land, which includes the Huanchaca Plateau, which at 42,000 hectares is one of the largest protected tracts of undisturbed cerrado …
Noel Kempff Mercado National Park is a national park in northeast Santa Cruz Department, Province of José Miguel de Velasco, Bolivia, on the border with Brazil. Noel Kempff Mercado National Park covers 1,523,446 hectares of land, which includes the Huanchaca Plateau, which at 42,000 hectares is one of the largest protected tracts of undisturbed cerrado in the world. The park is located on the Brazilian Shield in the northeast Santa Cruz Department in Bolivia. The Iténez River is its eastern and northern border separating it from the neighboring Brazil. It adjoins the 158,621 hectares Serra Ricardo Franco State Park, created in 1997, in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil. It has a mosaic of habitats situated in a transition zone where the Amazon rainforest and cerrado, a type of dry forest and savanna, meet. The park is made up of many different habitats, including upland evergreen forest, deciduous forest, upland savanna, savanna wetlands, and forest wetlands. The region has a marked dry season in the winter and a mean annual precipitation of 1,500 mm.
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