Parque Estadual Maciço da Pedra Branca (Rio de Janeiro)

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The Massive State Park of the White Rock is a situated Brazilian park in the City of Rio De Janeiro. Located between the Southwest and the West zone of the city, it is the biggest ecological park of Rio De Janeiro. With 12.500 hectares of extension, the Massive State Park of the White Rock shelters the biggest urban forest of the world and great wealth of the Brazilian fauna and the flora.

Peak of the White Rock (1,025 meters or 3,362 feet), culminating point of the city, can be sighted of any part of the borough. One consists of calcareous rock, a rocky formation of white color - from there the name "White Rock".

The peak is the most isolated point of the city due to the few existing ways of access and to the demographic density lower in comparison to the quarters of the Center and South Zone He is one of the points solitary of the River, as well as the Forest of the Tijuca (entirely inside of the city) and the bulk of the Park Municipal theatre of the Mendanha (that also it occupies areas of high demographic density in Nova Iguaçú).