Bahuaja-Sonene National Park description and photos - Peru: Puerto Maldonado (Topic)

Bahuaja-Sonene National Park description and photos - Peru: Puerto Maldonado. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photographs and a map showing the nearest significant objects. The name in English is Bahuaja-Sonene National Park.

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Bauaja-Sonene National Park, located in the southeastern Amazon region of Peru, was established in 1996 to protect one of the few regions that remains untouched by the intense life of modern human society. It includes areas where a very high level of biological diversity of fauna and flora is preserved, in some places record rates have been recorded.

The park protects a large number of species of plants, birds, mammals, reptiles, insects and fish, including including many rare species that are under threat of complete extinction. Many of the species found within the park are endemic to Peru, including two species of parrots and at least 28 newly registered species of butterflies.

In these forests you can see swamp deer, maned wolf, a unique species of eagle - South American harpy, giant anteater, anaconda, giant armadillo, giant river otter, black caiman, spectacled bear, jaguar and several species of monkeys. In 1992, an ichthyological research group found 93 species of fish in six different bodies of water, located only in the lower part of the Bauaha-Sonene park valley.

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