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100 hectares of fauna and flora located in an area of environmental preservation, sustainable development and a space dedicated to offering leisure and environmental education for the entire community.
This is what the Vale Botanic Park in São Luís offers its visitors in a unique experience of recreation, learning and contact with nature.
Browse the page and learn more about the work of the Botanical Park and the actions that the space offers.
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Where we are
Where it is located
You can visit us on Av. dos Portugueses, with no number. Anjo da Guarda. São Luís/MA. Zip Code 65085-581.
Opening hours
Mondays to Saturdays, from 8 am to 4 pm.
Sundays and holidays we do not work.
Sundays and holidays we do not work.
Entry is free!
What will you find in the Park?
The Vale Botanical Park in São Luís includes Ecological Trails, Sensory Trail, Orchid Garden, Herbarium, Knowledge Railroad Car, Cactus Collection, Seedling Nursery, Meliponary, Sustainable Workshops, Games and Educational Dynamics, Espaço Vale, Tours to the Ponta da Madeira Complex and Guided Tours.
Its priority is to strengthen fishing activity, monitor bioindicators and promote environmental education actions, in addition to promoting interaction between Vale and local communities, employees and visitors.
Visitors can explore the entire structure of the Vale Botanical Park in São Luís, which holds up to 5,000 people in its physical space, through various activities and dynamic spaces. Some examples are the Ecological Trails, Sensory Trail, Orchid Garden, Herbarium, Knowledge Railroad Car, Cactus Collection, Espaço Vale, Tours to the Ponta da Madeira Complex and Guided Tours.
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The promotion of education and culture are indispensable parts of the work carried out in the Park. Therefore, the space also has three classrooms, each with a capacity for 50 people, and an auditorium for 200 people.
Events such as lectures, courses and seminars are held in these spaces for both Vale's internal public and the local community and visitors. In addition, the space has an open-air amphitheater, intended for cultural, theatrical and music performances.
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Visit the Vale Botanical Park in São Luís without leaving home
Did you know that it is possible to visit the Vale Botanical Park in São Luís with just one click?
On the virtual tours website it is possible to learn about our operations and see the Botanical Park through a 360º immersion. It's super easy: once you open the map, click on Maranhão and select the Parque Botânico de São Luís (Vale Botanical Park in São Luís) From there, you can access the virtual tour from wherever you are!
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How visits work
At the Vale Botanical Park in São Luís, everyone is welcome! The space is open to the public for visit from Mondays to Saturdays, from 8 am to 4 pm. During the visits, activities are offered for all ages.
Attention to what is not allowed in the Vale Botanical Park in São Luís:
The entry of bicycles, skates, skateboards, scooters, drones, among other similar equipment, as well as the use of a ball in the Park area is prohibited. It is also not allowed the consump-tion of alcoholic beverages and the entry and circulation in bathing suits. Celebrations that do not comply with our regulation for picnics and the entry of domestic animals into the Park are prohibited.
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have already been attended to at Vale Botanical Park São Luís from 2008 to April 2023
Main activities of the park
Browse through the items below and learn more about each of the attractions that await you at the Vale Botanical Park in São Luís:
Vegetable Planting Workshop
Vegetable Planting Workshop
Did you know that planting seeds and vegetable seedlings in pots or beds is extremely important? In this workshop, participants have the opportunity to clarify doubts and receive tips on land preparation, irrigation, fertilization and routine care for planting, seeking to encourage well-being and healthy eating.
Visit to the Complex
Visit to the Complex
After enjoying all the attractions of the Botanical Park tour, visitors can also get to know Vale's operational area. During the visit, those who go there discover a little more about Vale's history in Brazil and around the world, how Vale operates on a day-to-day basis and our business. The stopping points are: Rotary car dumper, Stockyard and Ponta da Madeira Terminal
Sensory Trail
Sensory Trail
Focusing on the inclusion of everyone who passes through the Park, the Trilha dos Sentidos (Sensory Trail) is an accessible visitation space for people with mobility and visual disabilities. On the trail, visitors find five stations that lead them to explore the five senses and emotions.
Knowledge Railroad Car
Knowledge Railroad Car
This tour takes visitors to a car of the old passenger train, which has been renovated and modified into a space dedicated to knowledge and fun. There, you will find a game fixed on the wall with images of the local fauna, books and paintings for children, exhibitions of handicrafts made by workshops promoted by the Botanical Park and photographic exhibitions of actions carried out externally.
Meliponary
Meliponary
The Meliponary is a space for visits and environmental education, where it is possible to learn about the life and behavior of stingless bees, also called Meliponidae.
Here, visitors find a total of 26 wooden boxes with overpopulated swarms of bees, which may reach up to 5,000 bees per box. In our meliponary, we work with two species of stingless bees: the Tiúba (Melipona fasciculada) and the Mosquito Bee (Plebeia Mínima).
Orchid Garden
Orchid Garden
Opened in 2011, the Orquidário São Luís (São Luís Orchid Garden) is the first one open to the public in the city. This space houses collections of orchids native to Brazilian biomes, such as Oncidium cebolleta (Jacq.), Catasetum sp, Oeceoclades maculata (Lindi), Epidendrum nocturnum (Jacq.), among other species.
Seedling Nursery
Seedling Nursery
In the nursery, seedlings are developed for the production of native tree/shrub forest species. The objective of the initiative is to promote forest restoration and the provision of free genetic material to the community. Per year, its production capacity is 50,000 seedlings. The space is home to more than 40 native species, such as Ipê Amarelo (Handroanthus serratifolius), Cacau (Theobroma sp.), Cupuaçu (Theobroma grandiflorum), Jatobá (Hymenea Courbaril L.), Abiu da mata (Pouteria guianensis), among other species of Brazilian biomes.
Herbarium
Herbarium
The Herbarium of the Vale Botanical Park in São Luís contains 3 botanical collections: exsiccata, carpoteca and sementeca. Today, there are more than 50 collections of exsiccata, which can be found in the biomes: Cerrado, Amazon and Caatinga. All available to be explored by our visitors!
Espaço Vale
Espaço Vale
In this environment, there is a permanent exhibition with information about our company's operations in Maranhão, Brazil and the world, with emphasis on the production process from the mine, in Pará, to shipment in Porto, in São Luís.
Crafts and Environmental Education Workshop
Crafts and Environmental Education Workshop
This is a space reserved for recreational activities. There, visitors can have fun with ecological games and plays, artistic and sustainable workshops for the production of bags and rugs made with cloth scraps, pet keychains, bags with milk cartons, recycled paper picture frame, puzzle with a popsicle toothpick, etc.
Health Trail
Health Trail
Health Trail is a walking program guided by physical education professionals, offered free of charge to 400 residents of the Itaqui-Bacanga region. Activities such as gym and dance classes, lectures on health and exercise practices are held in the morning and afternoon, from Tuesdays to Friday,s at the Botanical Park. The program's objective is to contribute to the quality and life of residents of the Itaqui-Bacanga region, in addition to bringing these people closer to our company's initiatives.
Events
Events
Throughout the year, the Vale Botanical Park in São Luís holds several events and actions aimed at audiences of all ages, based on the Park's operating pillars: culture, education and health. Among the main events are Environment Week, Picnic in the Park, Health Park, Saturday with leisure, Reading Week, Biodiversity Day, Innovation Fair, Water Day, Annual Tree Festival, Children's Week, Exhibitions, Courses, Workshops, Seminars, Sustainable Art Week, Christmas Party, among other activities.
Ecological Library
Ecological Library
This is a space to learn while playing! With children's books, games, educational videos and various didactic toys, functioning as a toy library, Ecoteca brings children all the learning offered by the Park.
Cactus Collection
Cactus Collection
The Cactus Collection gathers species of cactus and succulents that can be found in the region and elsewhere in Brazil. In addition, it has a wide variety of species, available for visit. The Park team works for the maintenance, production, conservation and enrichment of the collection.
In addition, there are also actions and events focused on the Visual Arts, Sustainable Workshops, Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Musical Performance, Multimedia, Festival, Exhibition, Support for Social Initiatives and Health Campaign.
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Environmental Education
Activities that provide learning to generate knowledge about sustainability are the main axis of the Vale Botanical Park in São Luís.
Below, we have gathered some activities that we offer to our visitors.
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Ecological Trails
The Park has three ecological trails in dense forest: Ciliary Forest, Dense Woods, and Forest Restoration. Each trail has its travel time and is conducted with the accompaniment of an environmental educator, who leads a group of a maximum of 20 people.
Along the trail, visitors learn about botany and curiosities related to native fauna and flora. In addition, it is possible to visit the Trilha dos Sentidos (Sensory Trail), which was adapted to receive groups of people with disabilities and the elderly. Within it, visitors can stimulate the perception of the five senses: sight, touch, taste, smell and hearing.
Environmental Education Program
The Environmental Education Program is offered to students from municipal schools in the Itaqui Bacanga area, with support from the Municipal Department of Education. The objective is to develop participants' environmental awareness, leaving a legacy for future generations by promoting sustainable practices and encouraging changes in attitudes at school and in the community.
The program works in accordance with the pillars of UNESCO and the topics addressed are: Air, Water, Biodiversity, Energy and Waste. The Environmental Education Program, from its first edition, in 2012, to the last one, in 2021, managed to train 1,376 students from the Basic Education Units of the municipality who live on the Itaqui-Bacanga axis.
Environmental Education Program
The Sustainable Community Project aims to encourage and train people through Environmental Education, providing guidance on the reuse of materials that would otherwise be disposed and developing new skills.
In this way, it is possible to increase the possibility of generating income for the communities involved. The project also takes place through lectures, courses and sustainable workshops, according to the local reality, focusing on the re-use of the most generated waste in the region. For example: food, paper/cardboard, plastic, fabric and elements of nature.
Project Caravana nos Trilhos
This socio-environmental initiative takes actions on railroad safety, environmental education, health and entertainment for children, youth and adults from communities neighboring the Carajás Railroad, in the states of Maranhão and Pará.
Since its implementation in 2017, more than 56,000 residents of communities neighboring the Carajás railroad (EFC) have participated. The project is carried out through sustainable workshops, lectures, chat with train drivers and games about railroad safety. In addition, services are provided in the areas of health, recreation, competitions, distribution of snacks and others.
Action on the Passenger Train
This initiative arose with the aim of bringing environmental education and entertainment to children, young people and adults, during the journey on the passenger train, on the route that connects the Carajás Railroad, from Maranhão to Pará.
Following the path São Luís x Açailândia | Açailândia x São Luís, the program is carried out throughout the train journey, making the experience more pleasant and educational for passengers. Among the activities carried out are: vegetable planting workshop, fabric tiara workshop, gift packaging workshop with milk carton, storytelling, skin painting, games, reading corner, among others.
Virtual Actions
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Park underwent adaptation to the new moment of social distancing. Thus, virtual actions aimed at the public were born. Starting in 2020, 58 actions were carried out, such as the Environment Week, 100% online, in addition to workshops, lectures and other activities that totaled 2,137 participants.
Participatory Planning Project
The project is a form of direct involvement of the Itaqui-Bacanga community, in choosing, monitoring and carrying out initiatives carried out in the Botanical Park.
The main actions involve clothing customization workshop, theatrical shows, alternative cooking workshop, talent show, musical Saturday, music workshop, dance class, mini course on project development, visual arts exhibition, among others.
Itinerant Park Project
At the Vale Botanical Park in São Luís, the community also helps choose the program!
The Itinerante Park project is a socio-environmental action developed for the communities of São Luís and the residents who live along the Carajás Railroad. Actions include lectures, mini courses and workshops, according to requests received, addressing environmental and social issues, with the participation of communities.
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Do you want to know more about the Vale Botanical Park in São Luís?
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(98) 3272-7702
(98) 99227-4680 (only WhatsApp)
Monday-Friday, 8am to 4pm
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