Vale Botanical Park, park in Brazil

Vale Botanical Park is a 33-hectare forest conservation area within the Tubarão Port Industrial Complex in Vitória, Espírito Santo, 12 kilometers from the city center. Its flora includes over 140 tree species such as brazilwood, jacaranda, and ipé, plus an orchid house with about 450 specimens of 150 national and international species. Five monitored trails cross the Atlantic Forest restoration area.

The park opened in May 2004 as an initiative to connect the Vale company with the local community. It demonstrates how forest recovery can take place in an industrial region while mining operations continue at the nearby Tubarao Port Complex.

The park's name comes from Vale, the mining company that opened it in 2004 on its Tubarão industrial site. Its Sensory Garden, the first in Vitória, covers about 100 square metres and is laid out to engage the five senses: visitors touch plants and flowers, smell herb and medicinal beds, taste vegetables used as seasoning in traditional cooking, and hear birdsong and a stone cascade. Guides have been trained in Libras, the Brazilian sign language.

Entry to the park is free, but you should arrange a time ahead for guided hikes and the bus tour of the industrial complex. Comfortable clothing and closed shoes are recommended since trails pass through forested areas with uneven terrain.

The Knowledge Train is a rail-based mobile library with about 3.500 books and internet computers that opened in 2011 and is accessible for visually impaired visitors with audiobooks. The Sensory Garden was the city's first garden designed specifically to engage all five senses through direct plant interaction.