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Jungle Trips Manu. It is a protected natural area, southeast of Peru, located between the departments of Madre de Dios and Cusco, and its provinces of Manu and Paucartambo. With an area of 1,909 800 hectares or square hectometers. It is divided into three large zones: the National Park, with 1,532,806 ha, the Reserved Zone. With 257,000 ha and the Transitional or Cultural Zone, with 120,000 ha.
It is located from 300 masl, at the confluence of the Manu river with the Madre de Dios river, to 3800 masl. At the summit of the Apu Kañajhuay mountain. Some researchers and scholars believe that, in the virgin areas of this national reserve, is the Paititi or the golden city of the Incas.
The national park was created on May 29, 1973. In 1977, Unesco recognized the Park as a Biosphere Reserve and in 1987 declared it a Natural World Heritage Site.
The climate is varied in this area, the heavy rainy season starts from January to March, but throughout the year the rains are unexpected. The temperature in this area varies between 35 ° C during the day and 20 ° C at night.
It is one of the most biodiverse regions in the world. In this Manu national reserve you can find a great variety of ecological floors that exist in the Amazon, for this reason it is one of the most protected areas. 250 tree species have been found on a single hectare of land. In this Manu Biosphere reserve, 223, mammal species and 1005 birds have been registered. It also holds the world record for species diversity of amphibians (155) and reptiles (132) for a protected national reserve.
In the Manu National Reserve, there are testimonies of human groups and ancient cultures, the petroglyphs of Pusharo, a set of engravings whose origin and meaning have not yet been explained, these were reported by the priest Vicente de Cenytagoya in 1921, and the Shinkibenia river, a tributary of the Palotoa river, is located on the right bank; other petroglyphs are found in the Q’eros river, on the great rock “Xinkiori”, legendary for the huachipaeris. Similarly, there is knowledge of an archaeological site in the Mameria area, located at the headwaters of the Piñi Piñi and Alto Tono rivers.
The jungle Trips Manu área, has a history marked by the arrival of foreign people, from the time of the Inca empire when the Inca Pachacútec and Túpac Yupanqui annexed this area to their empire, until the arrival of the Spanish. Who shortly after the invasion of Cuzco founded the town of Paucartambo, a place where they established haciendas and encomiendas and where, in addition, King Carlos III of Spain ordered the construction of a bridge to facilitate trade in the products of the area; This is how this valley began to supply Cuzco with products such as coca, sugar, cotton, chili, wood and others.
In March 1567, the Spanish Juan Álvarez Maldonado in charge of the province of Mojos undertook a 37-day trip to make the first expedition from Paucartambo to the current town of Pillcopata. In May of the same year, Manuel de Escobar mounted a second expedition that followed the course of the Madre de Dios River to the Manu River.
The area is intended for protection, here only anthropological and biological research activities are allowed, limited to the observation of life and ecological processes in their natural form; In the national park is the Cocha Cashu Biological Study Station, considered one of the most important tropical forest research centers. The place is an intangible area and to visit it you must request an authorization.
It is located in the lower part of the Manu river. Tourist activities (organized by authorized tourism agencies: https://www.pachaexpeditions.com ) and research with minimal manipulation are allowed in this area. Here it is possible to observe a great variety of landscape and nature due to its large amount of flora and fauna visible from the rivers and lakes (meanders of the river that close and are isolated from the main channel, forming lagoons that maintain a great wealth of fauna). It extends from the Panagua river gorge to Boca Manu.
Jungle Trips Manu. It is an area made up of the banks of the Madre de Dios River and the high Andean territories in the southern part of the reserve. Between the dividing line of the National Park and the Mapacho River. In this area there are predominantly colonist populations that carry out agricultural, livestock and forestry activities and that have basic health, education and development services. The majority of this area is visited by groups of tourists who do not have much time and want to see the entrance to the jungle of the Manu National Park.
In the Manu biosphere reserve there are Territorial Reserve areas in favor of Kugapakori and Nahua Ethnic Groups. The Megantoni Sanctuary and the Amarakaeri Communal Reserve, in addition to the expansion of the current cultural zone (for multiple use in the Andes and Amazonia) are considered studies and proposals to integrate them into the Manu National Biosphere Reserve. Jungle Trips Manu.