The Environmental and Cultural Importance of the Metropolitan Park of Abaeté-Bahia from its Vegetation Formations / A Importância Ambiental e Cultural do Parque Metropolitano de Abaeté-Bahia a partir das suas Formações Vegetais

Abstract

The Abaeté Metropolitan Park is one of the largest ecological leisure centers in the Northeast of Brazil, built on 225 hectares of urbanized area, located in the city of Salvador, Bahia, in the neighborhood of Itapuã and bordering the municipality of Lauro de Freitas , and the Deputed Luis Eduardo Magalhães International Airport is integrated into the Park, following the beach line. Due to its location, the predatory patterns of recent years, in the way of dealing with environmental issues, have grown on a geometric scale. Characterized by a rich hydrological complex and a diversified Phyto physiognomic mosaic whose religiosity is linked to the Afro-indigenous culture; this park demands effective actions for the conservation of its remaining natural resources.This rich forest remnant, an important national and world heritage, presented in this article, needs to be protected and for this it is necessary to spread the dynamics of this ecosystem, the functioning of its fauna and flora and its local relations with its water and geological resources.