The AIlpahuayo-Mishana National Reserve, encompasses 57,600 hectares of land approximately 23 km south of Iquitos.
The rainforest near Iquitos is famous for their habitat heterogeneity. A combination of historical and geological events. Each of these distinct formations supports a unique community of plants and animals, the result being that Allpahuayo Mishana contains one of the highest biodiversities known in the Amazon basin.
Many of these species are white-sand specialists and are therefore exceedingly rare, due to the scarcity of white-sand forests in Peru. AIlpahuayo-Mishana is also the only place where the habitat of two species of primates has been officially protected in Peru (Callicebus torquatus and Pithecia aequatorialis).
