This area was on April 28, 1988 through Law (Resolución Suprema) N 0186-88-AG/DGFF. It is located in the departments of Junin and Cusco, in the provinces of Satipo and La Convencion, respectively and with a surface of 1 669 200 hectares. In this area live a big number of fishes and birds.

The Apurimac Reserve is populated by different indian tribus and includes general archaeological sites too.

The main goal it the conservation and the protection of representative samples of the humid forest in the Central Rain forest as well as the promotion of the scientific research as due to its isolated location it has not been studied yet.


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