Berkeley firefighters called to extinguish the blaze in Eastshore State Park discovered the man's charred remains.
Police said they did not know how the man was killed or whether he was alive when he was set on fire.
Investigators are treating the death as a homicide based on the position of the victim's body and other evidence at the scene.
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