Central Amazon Conservation Complex 4
Central Amazonian Conservation Complex (140 to 300S and 6126 to 6400W and 3 33S by 64 68W) is a World Heritage Site in Brazil. This huge 4.9 million square hectare puzzling of tropical rainforest protects one of the most biodiverse regions in the world. In Ja National Park it includes one of the best examples of a blackwater (igap) flooded ecosystem. In Mamiraua Reserve it includes one of the best examples of a whitewater (vrzea) seasonally flooded forest considering undisturbed dry tropical (terra-firme) forest along surrounded by them.
The site protects the largest array of electric fish in the world and key threatened species such as the giant arapaima fish, Amazonian manatee, black caiman and two species of river dolphin. The biodiversity includes examples of speciation accelerated by the extreme conditions which has resulted in a high degree of endemism. The place is a continuously varying mosaic of habitats extensive plenty to contain processes such as wind-blows, floods and burns, providing opportunities to psychiatry their effect in the region of the order of the biodiversity of natural ecosystems around a large scale. It is a WWF/IUCN Centre of Plant Diversity, one of BirdLife Internationals Important Bird Areas of the World and along between the World Wildlife Funds 200 Priority Regions for Conservation.
