Jacupiranga State Park

Jacupiranga State Park
Parque Estadual de Jacupiranga
IUCN category II (national park)
Quilombola in Quilombos de Barra do Turvo Sustainable Development Reserve, formerly in the park
Location	São Paulo, Brazil
Coordinates	24°52′9″S 48°21′0″W / 24.86917°S 48.35000°W / -24.86917; -48.35000
Area	150,000 hectares
Designation	State park
Created	8 August 1969
Disestablished	2008

The Jacupiranga State Park (Portuguese: Parque Estadual de Jacupiranga) was a state park in São Paulo, Brazil. It covered a large, mountainous region that included untouched Atlantic Forest and land occupied by traditional communities. When the park was created in 1969 the residents could no longer legally practice sustainable farming and extraction of forest resources, leading to land use conflicts, which mounted as the BR-116 highway opened the park to squatters from elsewhere. Eventually, in 2008 the park was combined with surrounding territory and broken up into three smaller state parks and various other units in which sustainable development was allowed.