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Tamshiyacu-tahuayo
REMOTE JUNGLE TERRITORY SPORADICALLY EXPLORED

 

The Tamshiyacu Tahuayo Regional and Communal Conservation Area (ACRCTT) is a protected area located southeast of Iquitos, which extends over the Peruvian department of Loreto, province of Maynas (district of Fernando Lores), Ramón Castilla (district of Yavarí) and Requena (Sapuena district and Yaquerana district). It was established by the Ministry of the Environment of Peru (MINAM, Ministry of the Environment) on May 15, 2009. The reserve is managed and financed by the Regional Government of Loreto.

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The Tamshiyacu Tahuayo Regional Conservation Area covers an area of 4,200.8 km 2 (420,080.25 ha, 1'038, 040.9 acre, 1,621.94 square miles) that includes floodplain forests and highlands of the Peruvian Amazon. It is known for its abundant wildlife. It has high levels of biodiversity, hundreds of species of mammals, primates, birds, fish, and reptiles have been documented, including several that are endemic and in danger of extinction or threatened.

This Conservation Area was established to conserve rainforest and upland rainforest ecosystems, as well as ecological and evolutionary processes of the area, guaranteeing the sustainable use of wildlife by the local population. Tamshiyacu-Tahuayo has several researchers and tourist activities focused on the observation of wildlife, which includes camping, hiking, boating, bird watching, fishing, and more.

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ampiyacu-apayacu
REMOTE JUNGLE TERRITORY SPORADICALLY EXPLORED

 

The Ampiyacu Apayacu Regional Conservation Area (ACRAA) is a protected area in Peru. It was created on December 23, 2010, through D.S. No. 024-2010-MINAM and covers an area of 434,129.54 hectares in the provinces of Maynas and Ramón Castilla, in the Loreto region.

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The area protects the lowland Amazon rainforest to the north of the Amazon River, which guarantees sustainable access, and the upper parts of the Ampiyacu and Apayacu basins are sources of water that maintain the aquatic fauna, the main source of food for 16 native communities that inhabit in these basins.

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It has 1,500 species of plants that make it the most biodiverse. The area is home to 207 species of fish, 64 of amphibians, 40 of reptiles, 362 of birds and 60 of mammals.

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MATSES NATIONAL RESERVE
REMOTE JUNGLE TERRITORY SPORADICALLY EXPLORED

 

The Matsés National Reserve (RNM) is a protected area of Peru located in the Loreto Region, Peruvian Amazon. It has an area of 420,635.34 has. (4,206.35 km²).

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The proposed establishment of the Matsés National Reserve is an initiative of the Matsés Native Community, which is located in the area adjacent to the Protected Natural Area, which constitutes one of the greatest strengths of the itself, given the commitment shown through their active participation in the process of preparing the establishment proposal.

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The reserve will also support regional conservation, as it is part of a bi-national biological corridor with the Sierra del Divisor National Park in Peru and the Sierra del Divisor National Park and the Extractive reserves in Brazil - Alto Juruá Extractive Reserve and Alto Tarauacá Extractive Reserve.

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YAGUAS NATIONAL PARK

UNEXPLORED AND REMOTE AMAZON TERRITORY

 

The Yaguas National Park (PNY) was created on January 11, 2018 and is located in the Loreto Region of Peru near the border with Colombia. It covers an area of 8,689 km² (2,147,100 acres) of tropical forest. Along with Río Puré, Cahuinarí and Amacayacu National Park in Colombia, as well as the Regional Conservation Areas Maijuna Kichwa and Ampiyacu Apayacu in Peru, it is part of a huge biological corridor.

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There are approximately 600 species of birds, 150 species of mammals, 110 species of amphibians, and 100 species of reptiles in the national park, such as brown woolly monkey, anteater, South American tapir, giant otter, Amazonian manatee, Amazon river dolphin, caiman, and yellow-footed tortoise. More than 300 species of fish are also found in the park, among them fish that cross the forest not swimming nor floating down a river, feeding on fruits and living in branches and Arapaima gigas, the largest freshwater fish in the world.

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More than 3,500 species of plants abound in the park, among them Hura crepitans, Cedrelinga cateniformis, Simarouba amara, Macrolobium acaciaefolium and Ceiba pentandra.

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SIERRA DEL DIVISOR NATIONAL PARK

UNEXPLORED AND REMOTE AMAZON TERRITORY

The Sierra del Divisor National Park (PNSD) covers territories of the province of Coronel Portillo in the department of Ucayali and of the provinces of Ucayali, Requena and Maynas belonging to the department of Loreto. It has an extension of 1,354,485.10 hectares. This protected natural area seeks to protect the Sierra del Divisor which is a mountainous complex located in the Amazon plain. These mountains have a steep slope and originate a watershed at more than 900 meters above sea level.

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The complex of cones and hills of volcanic origin present in the Contamana - Abujao - El Divisor region constitutes the origin of infinity of small basins that drain their waters towards the Ucayali River in Peru and the Yuruá in Brazil. In that country there is a complex of protected natural areas contiguous to the Park, which form a biological corridor of more than three million hectares.

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Geologically, it is one of the oldest areas of the Amazon and has spectacular and inaccessible landscapes. At the same time, the Sierra del Divisor National Park presents little intervening areas with a high degree of conservation that encompass ecosystems and biological communities of endemic flora and fauna species and of restricted distribution, which makes it an area of ​​great importance. Likewise, it has numerous waterfalls, hot springs and macaw clay licks, of great beauty and attractiveness.

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The unique geographical situation of the PNSD with its isolated mountains has generated many endemism, that is, in the area there are species that only exist in that place. Only in the Sierra del Divisor inhabits the "bird of the divisorius" (Thamnophilus divisorius), also known as the Acre anthill, referring to the neighboring Brazilian region where it was first recorded in 2004. Later this bird was found in Peru.

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