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Peru Reserved Aereas
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PERU RESERVED AREAS

The reserved areas have condition to be declared Protected Natural Areas, but, in this case the first ones need to be studied to determine their extensions and categories.

The Reserved Areas are: Pantanos de villa, Tambopata Candamo, Apurimac, Rio Rimac, Manu
 

The Reserved area of Apurimac

This area is located in the departments of Junin and Cusco, in the provinces of Satipo and La Convencion, respectively and with a surface of 1 669 200 hectares. In this area live a big number of fishes and birds.

This area is populated by different indian tribus and includes general archaeological sites too.

The main goal it the conservation and the protection of representative samples of the humid forest in the Central Rain forest as well as the promotion of the scientific research as due to its isolated location it has not been studied yet.

The Reserved area of  Rio Rimac

This Reserved area is located in the department of Lima, province of Lima and covers the districts of Cercado de Lima - the Citye center-, El Agustino, Santa María de Huachipa, Ate-Vitarte, San Juan de Lurigancho, Chosica and Chaclacayo. It surface covers a strip of 28 kilometers of the river Rimac.

With regard to the fauna we can see the falco sparverius, in the banks of the river we can find birds such as Troglodytes musculus, the Kingfisher (Chloreceryle americana), the duck called gargantillo (Anas bahamensis), herons such as: Egretta thula, Eudocimus albus, bubulcus ibis and Nycticorax nycticorax. The typical plant in the area is the Pájaro bobo (Tessaria integrifolis). The main goal of this area is the preservation of the habitats and the conditioning of the riverside defenses.