Tour description:
Local Trekkers Peru offers the 4 Days tour in the Manu National Park, this wonderful biosphere is located in Madre de Dios and Paucartambo, Cusco. It is an area protected by the Peruvian government in 1977 and was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1987.
It is the largest National Park in Peru, with an area 1 909 800 hectares. It is divided into three large areas: The National Park, with 1,532,806 hectares; The Reserved Zone, with 257,000 hectares; And the Transitional or Cultural Zone, with 120 000 hectares. The park protects several ecological zones due to this topographic range, it has one of the highest levels of biodiversity of any park in the world.
In this park there are more than 15,000 species of plants in Manu, and up to 250 varieties of trees have been found per hectare. It also houses more than 1000 bird species more than the number of bird species found in the United States and Canada combined and almost 10% of the total bird species in the world.
It also has one of the largest amounts of terrestrial vertebrates found in the tropical forests of Latin America, it is also the last refuge of the largest feline (The Great JAGUAR) of the Peruvian Amazon.
