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Manu

The Manu Biosphere Reserve is located southwest of Peru, partially located in regions of Madre de Dios and Cusco, in the provinces of Manu and Paucartambo. With an area of 1,909,800 ha is divided into three main areas: National Park, with 1,532,806 ha; Reserved Zone, with 257,000 ha and the Transition Zone and Cultural Materials, with 120,000 ha.

It stretches from the 300 meters, at the confluence of the Manu River with the Upper Madre de Dios River, up to 3,800 meters at the summit of the mountain Apu Kañahuay. Some researchers believe that in the wilderness areas of this reserve is Paititi or the lost city of the Incas.

In 1967, at the initiative of Celestino Kalinowski, son of a famous Polish naturalist who came to Peru in 1887, and the report of British adviser Ian Grimwood, the Peruvian state recommended the creation of a National Park in Manu. In 1968 was declared as National Forest and then Manu National Park was established on May 29, 1973, by Supreme Decree 0644 to 73-AG, in order to preserve their natural and cultural heritage for the benefit of present generations and future; determined the same purpose for recognition by UNESCO of the Biosphere Reserve of Manu that today covers an area of 1,881,200 ha (18,812 sq km) in the provinces of Paucartambo in Cusco and Manu in Madre de Dios. Its boundaries were drawn by applying the principle of natural boundaries and mastery basins. However, the boundary of the park in the same river Manu had to stop at the confluence with the river Panahua grounds that there was an oil exploration.

Geography

In its vast territory, from Pune to 3500 meters high, covered with grass, where the dry air and temperatures vary under the sun or under the shade, and depending on the months reaching -9 ° C to 22 ° C between September and April and the rainy season snow or hail between October and April were down a long stretch of transition called "scrub forest" going down to about 2,600 meters from where the vegetation is forming a forest area which to date have identified about 450 species of plants and where the rainfall can reach between 500 and 1000 mm.

Forests "Montano low" take place between 2200 and 1650 m; hallándose trees up to 25 m in height covered with orchids and ferns growing families on the walls of deep precipices. Among them can be found Araceae broad leaves and tree ferns that characterize the place in these forests covered with mist and cold weather there is a landscape between shadows and penumbras constantly wet.

The forest "Montano rain", also known as "Cloud Forest" is an almost magical place located between 600 meters in a fog cover splendid landscape is constantly filled with vegetation, here there are trees up to 30 m in height that are invaded 'm looking for orchids, ferns and averages, forming a dense forest interrupted only by small stream cascades if they are born and is lost among the vegetation. At present it is estimated that this area contains at least 200 different species of trees with a density that can exceed 700 per hectare. Here the temperature varies between 20 ° and 25 ° C can download at night to 16 or 18 ° C.

In "tropical rain forest" also called "lowland" is spread over the vast Amazon plain, from 300 to 600 meters. This is undoubtedly the most representative and broad landscape of the Reserve. Here in the area of winding river Manu, trees have a huge height; on the high crown of these, only two species emerge beyond the barrier of the forest canopy or roof: the robust shihuahuaco (Dipteryx micrantha) and lupuna (Ceiba pentandra), which is the highest in the forest and the trees can exceed 60 m in height and has a glass of up to 50 metres in diameter.