The Itabira Natural Monument is in the municipality of Cachoeiro de Itapemirim, Espírito Santo.
It has an area of 452 hectares (1,120 acres).[1]
The monument is 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) from the municipal center.[2]
It includes the Pedra do Itabira, a striking vertical rock.[3]
The site includes overhanging rocks, fragments of Atlantic Forest and endangered birds such as the dusky-legged guan (Penelope obscura), Neotropical bellbird (genus Procnias), red-browed amazon (Amazona rhodocorytha) and saffron toucanet (Pteroglossus bailloni).[4]
It attracts tourists, mountain-bikers, hikers and mountaineers.[2]
History
The name "Itabira" is from the Tupi-Guarani language and means "steep rock".
The stone was first climbed in 1947.[2]
The Itabira Sustainable Development Reserve was created by municipal decree 6159 of 25 August 1988 with an area of 104.75 hectares (258.8 acres).[3]
It became part of the Central Atlantic Forest Ecological Corridor, created in 2002.[5]
Municipal law 5774 of 3 October 2005 recategorized the reserve as the Itabira Natural Monument.[3]
In November 2014 the monument was enrolled in the National Register of Conservation Units (CNUC).
This made it eligible to receive environmental compensation funds and assistance in management.[4]
Lamas, Ivana Reis; Crepaldi, Maria Otávia; Mesquita, Carlos Alberto Bernardo (2015), Uma Rede no Corredor(PDF) (in Portuguese), Conservação Internacional (CI-Brasil), ISBN978-85-98830-28-5, retrieved 2016-10-22
