It is part of the National System of Protected Natural Areas for the State. Is a Natural areas of bigger importance of the Peru, to have mixed resources (natural and cultural).
In this park exist 8 areas of life that comprehend from the 350 until the 4349 m.s.n.m. The forests of fog that conform most of the Park contain the biggest diversity of plants after the tropical humid forests, their flora includes bromeliads, canes, orchids, mosses, ferns and plants characteristic of the high forest.
