Cuaraco de negro – iron wood, an underutilized lesser know species from tropical South America of extremely hard and very heavy wood. Even when completely dry this wood sinks in water. The wood darkens over time almost turning into black.
Canopy Wood name: Curacao de negro
Scientific name: "swartzia spp"
Origin of Pandora production line: PAN01 – CON:
Locate and watch there the lesser-known timer species come from through Google
Earth 5 : (Also works in Google maps)
02 49 33S, 58 42 07W (copy and paste this string or click here) The forest is North and South to the AM010 – notice the deforestation coming in from the East
02 57 56S, 58 47 39W (copy and paste this string or click here) The forest is North West, North East and South East from here. The AM010 is very close to the forest border. Notice how deforestation occurs along the AM010.
From these points, move 250 km to the South East into the state of Para and notice the severe deforestation (currently about 4% annually) coming in from the East and progressing into the Eastern parts of the State of Amazonia.
Link to wood description
