Floresta Estadual Edmundo Navarro de Andrade, State forest and park in São Paulo, Brazil.
The Floresta Estadual Edmundo Navarro de Andrade covers 2,230.53 hectares, mostly in Rio Claro with the remainder in Santa Gertrudes, São Paulo. It began as a Companhia Paulista de Estradas de Ferro tree nursery, and its eucalyptus stands, planted from Australian species, surround the Museu do Eucalipto founded in 1916.
The Companhia Paulista de Estradas de Ferro created this nursery in 1909 to supply sleepers and charcoal for its railways, naming it after Edmundo Navarro de Andrade, who brought 144 eucalyptus species from Australia in 1914. A 2002 state decree (n. 46.819) reclassified the former horto florestal as a forest, not a change of management.
The Eucalyptus Museum inside the forest displays tools, machines, and documents from the early days of forestry research in Brazil. The collection gives a concrete sense of how scientific work was organized in an outdoor setting.
The forest sits between the municipalities of Rio Claro and Santa Gertrudes, and having your own vehicle is the most convenient way to reach it. Comfortable footwear is recommended, as some sections of the trails can be slippery after rain.
Edmundo Navarro de Andrade, the engineer the forest is named after, tested more than 100 eucalyptus species from Australia here to find those best suited to Brazilian conditions. His work on this land helped make Brazil one of the largest eucalyptus producers in the world today.
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