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
Country	Brazil
Region	Southeast
State	Rio de Janeiro
Government
• Prefeito	Anderson Alexandre (PMDB)
Area
• Total	937.755 km^2 (362.069 sq mi)
Elevation	35 m (115 ft)
Population  (2022 [1])
• Total	21,352
• Density	23/km^2 (59/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC−3 (BRT)
Website	[1]

Silva Jardim (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈsiwvɐ ʒaʁˈdʒĩ]) is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro. Its population was 21,352 (2022) and its area is 937 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]

See also

• Antônio da Silva Jardim

References

1. IBGE 2020
2. "IBGE 2022". cidades.ibge.gov.br. Retrieved 2023-10-26.
3. Unidade de Conservação: Reserva Biológica de Poço das Antas (in Portuguese), MMA: Ministério do Meio Ambiente, retrieved 2016-04-28
4. PES dos Três Picos (in Portuguese), ISA: Instituto Socioambiental, retrieved 2016-10-03
5. 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