Pacaya Samiria National Reserve

It’s one of the widest protected areas in Peru, with an extension of more than 7.700 square miles characterized by a high biodiversity level as well as a human population that exploits natural resources and protect.
The reserve is delimited by two big rivers, Marañon in the North and Ucayaly in the South, just a little before their junction that originates Amazon River.

The Reserve is constituted by three hydrographical basins: the first is the Samiria one, the second is the Pacaya one and the third is the Yanayacu Pucate one; activities of Association “Rumbo al Dorado” take place in this last one. In this reserve we found a biological diversity of tropical bird species, mammals, species of freshwater fish, reptiles and more than 1000 varieties of plants, as well as species in danger of extinction like the giant otter, the black lizard, the manatee and the pink dolphin of the Amazon.
The whole region is characterized by a tropical climate and a precipitation level that reaches 3.000 mm (120 inches) a year; territory is covered with a thick vegetation and a complex network of rivers, channels and lagoons.

This Reserve is the largest protected flooded forest of the world and one of the richest places in biological wealth on the planet.