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This city offers the visitor the extraordinary to be in contact with nature and to enjoy the exotic and wonderful places in the world where nature is shown as splendid and abundant as in the Amazon Forest of Peru. Here, there are a conjunction of vibrant forests, impetuous and mighty rivers, immense swamps and marshes that conform an exuberant ecosystem where the life is manifested in almost all its forms.
Amid this wonderful place, in an area of 10,000 hectares, is located the natural ecological reserve, in area known as Tambopata, 30 km from Puerto Maldonado by the River Bajo Madre de Dios. Go into this wonderful place and contemplate the bustling and cheerful flocks of parrots as well those more than 1200 species of birds. Also, you can delight your view with hundreds of animal species that look for refuge in the heart of the Amazonian.
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Manu, located in the southern orient of Peru, is one of largest natural parks in South America, The area of the park encompasses parts of the Andean department of Cusco and the jungle department of Madre de Dios, Manu protects over 2 million hectares (4.5 million acres) of territory rich in flora and fauna species in a variety of habitats including high Andes, cloud forests, and lowland tropical rain forests.
The Manu National Park in the most biologically diverse protected park on the planet. This natural paradise, in 1997, was officially recognized and designated by the UNESCO as a World Biosphere Reserve because it contains the best existing example of biodiversity in a protected area of a rain, as well as endemic areas of cloud forest.
Although the majority of forests in the world have been altered by humans, fortunately, Manu has remained intact and untouched by civilization, giving us the opportunity to observe a variety of animals in their natural habits, including Giant Otters (Ptenoruro brasiliensis), Black Caiman (Melanosuchus niger), the majestic Jaguar (Panthera onca), the strange Spectacled Bear (Tremarctos ornatus), the Tapir (Tapirus terrestris), the Ocelot (felis pardalis), 13 species of primates, and an estimated one thousand species of birds including seven Macaws (Aras pp.). Manu also contains 10% of the world’s vascular plant species, including several species of figs and palms, as well as countless species of medicinal plants that scientists are currently listed.
The Manu National Park may be the most biological diverse and protected park on the planet. To give our clients the opportunity to visit magical place, we offer 4 different ways to visit Manu ensuring you an exciting, educational and marvelous experience.
The main difference between our programs in the in and out transportation from Manu. By this program you will get in and out Manu by plane.
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Tambopata National Reserve is on the edge of the Bahuaja Sonene National Park, creating an immense area totaling more than 3,000,000 acres of sub-tropical moist rainforest.
The original Tambopata Candamo Reserved Zone was created by a ministerial resolution in January 1990 as a step towards a larger policy of land management in the area and to protect the land whilst it was properly surveyed to determine the best land-use for it. The status of Reserved Zone gave the area greater protection than it had before, though a number of factors came into play from 1990 undermining the whole process begun by the Institute of Natural Resources (INRENA) who manage the area.
One of the land-use proposals put forward was for a national park to protect the watershed of the Tambopata and other rivers and their natural resources from the encroachment of civilization. The proposed National Park was to be called Bahuaja-Sonene. The National Park status was given to 54 thousand hectares of the previous Reserved Zone in August 1996 - a blessing for nature, as Peruvian law at present restricts the entrance of people into such areas (except under very special circumstances).
On the 10th of September 2000, the Bahuaja Sonene National Park was created along with the Tambopata National Reserve as described above. The area also become part of a cross border park system, joining the Madidi National Park in Bolivia, and becoming the largest protected zone of tropical forest on the continent of South America. |
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