in fact, the park currently
protects approximately 30,000 hectares of biotic and
geomorphologic heritage of the
serra da mantiqueira, a mountain
chain that spans across the states of rio de janeiro,
minas gerais,
and são paulo.
less than 3 hours away by car from rio de janeiro
capital, the park is situated over approximately twenty eight hectares in the
serra da
mantiqueira in the mata atlântica.
it is accessed via the estrada do parque nacional,
at about 230 kilometers from the city of rio.