TAMBOPATA AMAZON WILDLIFE

Discover the Tambopata Amazon Wildlife, in the department of Madre de Dios, is located one of the greatest natural treasures of Peru: the Tambopata National Reserve. With an extensive area of great biological richness, its purpose is to protect the multiple species of flora and fauna, as well as to provide resources to the native communities that inhabit it and to safeguard the beauty of the tropical sub-humid forest.

The Tambopata National Reserve was founded in 2000 and has a huge size of 274,690 hectares, in addition to being home to incredible biodiversity. The reserve has more than 550 identified bird species (eg macaws, hoatzins), around 200 mammals (eg 200 different amphibians and reptiles (eg tree frogs, rainbow boa), thousands of insects, and more than 10,000 plants and trees identified.

Visiting this reserve will always be a special experience not only for being a tourist place, but also for its immense value in generating environmental awareness and for being an opportunity for the visitor to connect with nature and all its benefits. In Tambopata you can navigate on rivers and lakes, observe reptiles in the light of the moon, discover the Collpas frequented by birds and climb to the top of the trees to observe all the spectacle that this ecological wonder offers.

Tambopata is divided into six zones, of which two are for tourist and recreational use, located along the Malinowsky and Tambopata rivers. There you will be able to contemplate charming attractions like collpas -in Quechua ‘salty land’- or clay benches located on the banks of rivers, where macaws and various species of parrots feed on mineral salts. This richness of nutrients makes them a key site within the ecosystem.