Deciduous forest
A rare remnant.
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Fritz Plaumann State Park is a reserve in Concórdia in western Santa Catarina, on the north shore of the reservoir of the Itá hydroelectric dam on the Uruguay River. It covers 741 hectares and protects one of the state's last remnants of seasonal deciduous forest; about a third of it is an island in the lake. The park is named after the German scientist Fritz Plaumann (1902–1994), who lived in the region and collected more than eighty thousand insect specimens over his long career, now shown at his entomological museum in nearby Seara, the largest collection of its kind in Latin America and one of the largest in the world. The Itá dam was built between 1990 and 2000, flooding the mouth of the Queimados River that forms the park's western boundary. The park has trails through the forest and lookouts over the lake, and draws walkers, birdwatchers and school groups. It combines well with the Plaumann museum in Seara and the nearby town of Itá.
A rare remnant.
Lookouts and island.
The insect scientist.
Concórdia municipality, on the Itá reservoir, western Santa Catarina
At the Fritz Plaumann museum in nearby Seara.