Serra da Mocidade National Park

Serra da Mocidade National Park (Portuguese: Parque Nacional Serra da Mocidade) is a national park in Brazil. It is in Amazonas and Roraima, Brazil.

The park is in the Amazon area. It is 376,813 hectares (931,130 acres) in size. It was made into a park on 29 April 1998. The Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation runs the park.^[1] The park is in parts of the towns of Barcelos, Amazonas and Caracaraí, Roraima.^[2] It is next to the Yanomami Indigenous Territory to the north.^[3]

The northwest of the park has mountains in it that are not part of the mountain ranges of the Guianas. They are 100 to 1,700 metres (330 to 5,580 ft) high.^[2] The park has small streams and upland forest, wetlands, and rivers with unusual chemicals, for example the Catrimani River and Água Boa do Univini River). Some of the wetlands are only full of water for part of the year.^[2] Average rainfall is 2,000 metres (6,600 ft) each year. Temperatures are from 24 to 36 °C (75 to 97 °F) with an average of 28 °C (82 °F).^[2]

The IUCN says the park is a IUCN protected area category II (national park). Its job is to keep natural ecosystems alive because of their importance and beauty, to allow scientists to study the world, to teach people about the environment, and to give people places to visit.^[2] The conservation unit is supported by the Amazon Region Protected Areas Program.^[4]