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Peru National & Historical Sanctuaries

Peru National & Historical Sanctuaries
Peru National Reserves
Peru Reserved Aereas
Peru National Parks

The main purposes of the National & Historical Sanctuaries are the protection of the local habitat the flora and fauna as well as the natural formations that could have some scientific and scenic concern.

The National Sanctuaries & Historical  are: Mejia Lagoons, Ampay, Mangrove Sweeps of Tumbes, Calipuy, Huayllay, Pampa off ayacucho, Machu Picchu

The Historical Sanctuary of Machu Picchu

It is a mystical place, a monument to divinity, where people can feel that they are a creation of God. The high sense of spirituality that inhabits this place seems to transport its visitors to a place where everything "in an unimaginable way" is possible. It is a place where strange forces of nature allow the individuals to reach an incomparable cosmic state, a state that can only be experimented in Machu Picchu.It is one of the most popular archaeological sites of the world, and therefore, the most visited attraction in Peru.The Citadel of Machu Picchu (in Quechua language "Old Mountain") is known throughout the world for its amazing ruins and its unusual location on a high mountain overlooking the mighty currents of the Urubamba river.

The flora is exhuberant, in the low lands we find the also (Alnus jorullensis), the pisonay (Erythrina falcota), the walnut tree (Junglans neotropica), the intimpa (Podocarpus glomeratus; the quishuar (Buddleia incana), the queñual (Polylepsis racemosa), the cedar (Cedrela sp.) and many others like palm trees and archids (30 types and 190 species) which flower all the year, among the most beautiful archids we can see the Maxillaria floribunda among others.

With regard to the fauna, among the birds we can notice the condor (vultur gryphus) and different gummingbirds, among the mammals we observe the Taruka Taruka (Mazzama chunyi), the puma (Puma con color), the ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) and some species of monkeys like Cebus, Saimiri, Aotus and Lagothrix the last one in danger of extinction

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