Serra da Bodoquena is located in the intersection of the biomes: Pantanal, Chaco and “cerrado”. This has generated a huge biodiversity, which is the main cause of the area’s exuberant fauna.

ANIMALS

In the Serra da Bodoquena, there are 340 known bird species and 60 known mammals. In its large area of untouched forest, you can find rare and endangered animals such as pumas (onça pintada), anteaters, otters, red and blue macaws, harpy eagles and the suspicious king-vultures, as well as groups of capuchin monkeys, whitelipped peccaries, rheas and seriemas.

50 species of fish have been catalogued in its rivers, where the Piraputanga is the most beautiful. Its name stems from the Indian language and means “fish with a red tail”. You will be delighted with the Dourados, the Corimbas and the Piavuçús.

PLANTS

Serra da Bodoquena is the largest preserved natural forest in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul. The Boca da Onça Farm is in the surrounding zone – an environmental preservation area of the Parque Nacional da Serra da Bodoquena, created in the year 2000 by President Fernando Henrique Cardoso. The park is a wide area with 76 thousand hectares, comprising the towns of Bodoquena, Bonito, Jardim and Porto Murtinho.

By walking across the woods you will find peppertrees, ipês with yellow, white and purple flowers (the Piúvas), Ximbuvas, Cedars, courbaril trees, Bacuris (a palm tree very appreciated by the animals), the Barrigudas and the rare Jaracatiá (of the same family of the well-known papaya tree).