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It is accessible via the Amazon River through the city of Iquitos in the department of Loreto, or through the city of Tarapoto via Yurimaguas. This is one of the best places for wildlife spotting, which is a Ramsar site and the largest government-protected area in the floodable Amazon rainforest in South America. Pampa Galeras National Reserve.
Peruvian Amazonia (Spanish: Amazonía del Perú), informally known locally as the Peruvian jungle (Spanish: selva peruana) or just the jungle (Spanish: la selva), is the area of the Amazon rainforest in Peru, east of the Andes and Peru's borders with Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, and Bolivia. This region comprises 60% of the country and is marked ...
The Constitution of Peru of 1993 recognized the natural resources and ecosystem variety of its country as a heritage. [1] In 1990, the National System of Natural Areas that are protected by the Government (SINANPE) was created. [2] This entity depends on the National Service of Protected Areas by the State (SERNANP), Ministry of Environment.
The armadillos are small mammals with a bony armored shell. All 21 extant species are found in South America, where they originated. Their much larger relatives, the pampatheres and glyptodonts, once lived in North and South America but became extinct following the appearance of humans. Family: Dasypodidae (long-nosed armadillos) Subfamily ...
Through cultural ecosystem services, biodiversity provides economic benefits in the form of recreation and tourism, while also benefitting human wellbeing. [49] [50] Biodiversity influences the potential of ecosystems to provide recreational services. [51] This includes outdoor recreation, such as hiking, hunting, fishing, and wildlife watching.
South America is the continent with the largest number of recorded bird species. [3] Additionally, speciation has occurred at a higher rate in South America than in other parts of the world. [1] This is likely due to the large amount of land mass close to the equator.
The Amazon drainage basin covers an area of about 7,000,000 km 2 (2,700,000 sq mi), [1] or about 35.5 percent of the South American continent. It is located in the countries of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela, as well as the territory of French Guiana. [2] [3]
Fauna of South America by dependent territory (3 C) Fauna of South America by region (13 C) A. Aquatic animals of South America (5 C, 1 P) I.