São Paulo - São Miguel Paulista

Parque Chico Mendes

Inn the São Miguel Paulista district is Chico Mendes Park, established in 1989 on the Chácara da Figueira (also known as Vila Curuça) to protect one of the last areas of mata atlântica in São Paulo. The vegetation in this park includes chorisias (floss-silk trees), guapuruvurs or baquerubus and jatobás or jataís (two trees belonging to the Leguminosae), bromeliads, samambaias-açu or xaxims (trees related to the ferns) and many other species.