Amazon Explorer Puerto – Maldonado
The city of Puerto Maldonado is located in the southern part of Peru. It is the perfect place to explore the tropical jungle, which is one of the main attractions that Peru has. Where two main rivers, the Madre de Dios and the Tambopata, meet. It has a very rich in flora and fauna. Where it passes through the middle of the jungle giving life to many creatures that have adapted from living in this virgin forest. To explore take an outboard boat and explore the Amazon adventure, aboard a boat outboard or in a rowing canoe navigating the winding snake-shaped canals in this jungle. It will be an unforgettable experience .
Tambopata National Reserve -Amazon Explorer – Puerto Maldonado
Covering an area of 275,000 hectares (680,000 acres), the Tambopata National Reserve is a highly protected Amazon rainforest located in the southeastern part of Peru. That the sanctuary is very incredible with greater biological diversity, this national reserve has impressive attractions such as the Oxbow lakes, lagoons and different forest habitats such as the tropical jungle, humid forests, aguajales etc. It has more than 680 species of common and endemic birds. 1200 species of butterflies that also join a long list of animals in danger of extinction, such as giant river otters, harpy eagles and jaguars, sloth bears, deer, tapir, tapir jungle pigs and other species that call this natural home. place.
The Tambo Pata Reserve has numerous clay licks along the exposed riverbanks where macaws and parrots, parakeets, birds and large animals congregate each morning.
Amazon Explorer – Puerto Maldonado The Bahauja-Sonene National Park
This reserve embraces the southern part of the Tambopata National Reserve.
Tambopata. It is very huge, it covers more than 1 million hectares (2.47 million acres) and it protects the only very rich and humid savannah of this tropical forest that has the greatest biodiversity on the planet. Access to this Bahauja-Sonene National Park is very limited.
Encompassing an intense diversity of wildlife.
Did You Know that two-Thirds of the World’s Plant and Animal Species have this Rainforest Home?
This Amazon reserve keeps many secrets and it is very mysterious where new species were discovered! The Amazon is very extensive and exuberant with tropical forest and the largest on earth and is very fresh for biodiversity. It comes to awaken and fascinate all visitors and adventurers who love nature.
Fascinating Nature of the Amazon Peru.
This Amazon is beautiful hills that one can discover and it is also very diffuse and frankly very strange, for its creatures of this Amazon that are the highlight of any adventure in this virgin forest with many mysteries. What ! howler monkeys swing from the branches of the tallest trees, families of 1.8 m and (6 ft) giant river otters that have their own homes in Oxbow Lakes, how three-toed sloths are rare to observe even for long-term researchers, the pumas and jaguars that are in danger of extinction that is the perfect home for these tropical forests with many habitats of different species found in southern Peru.
Licks.
It derives from the Quechua word that has a meaning (Mineral Salts)These clay licks in the Tambopata and Manu national parks are very privileged places for observing macaws, parrots and parakeets that have different colors like the rainbow that every morning hundreds of birds come down to eat this salty clay that contains quite a lot of mineral salts. They eat to neutralize the acids and toxins from these unripe fruits and dried seeds and plants.
Things to Do Clay Licks .
The most amazing spectacle of the Amazon Where every morning large flocks of macaws, parrots, parakeets and some birds come to eat this clay. These clay licks are found on the banks of rivers that are large walls of salty clay that naturally formed centuries ago where are you birds found for their diets that most importantly the wild amzonia.
Why do Birds Eat Clay
According to studies carried out, scientists say that clay contains sodium and salts and minerals and other components. The theory is that birds ingest or eat this clay to help and neutralize the toxins they eat from certain plants, green fruits or dry seeds.