A Floresta da Tijuca possui diversas fontes de água cristalina The Tijuca Forest has several sources of clear water |
Sem água não há vida Without water there is no life |
Em meados do século XIX foi justamente a escassez de água que disparou o alarme da necessidade de recompor a mata que protegia as fontes que abasteciam a capital do Império. E esta função permanece ativa até hoje, mesmo com o crescimento descontrolado da população urbana.
Açude da Solidão, local onde o Barão de Bom Retiro chorava a morte de um filho na Guerra do Paraguai Dam of Solitude, where Baron Bom Retiro cried the death of a son in the Paraguayan War |
Water - Tijuca National Park
Besides being a place of recreation and sports for the Rio, or an important wildlife refuge, the Tijuca Forest is also responsible for the maintenance of water sources in the region.In the mid-nineteenth century was precisely the lack of water that caused the alarm of the need to restore the forest that protected the sources that supplied the capital of the Empire. And this function remains active even today, with the uncontrolled growth of urban population.
But the forest has much more to offer. Thanks to her soil erosion is controlled as well as the occurrence of floods. And without it the average temperature in the city would be approximately 10 º C hotter!
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