NORTH EAST IQUITOS 

AMAZON FOREST

Oropéndola Tours & Cruises offer a wide range of services that provide a genuine experience of the beauty and wonder of the Amazon. Like no other place in the world, the upper Amazon basin has a great diversity of plant and animal life as well as indigenous people. The cruises expeditions are the best means to explore all of the incredible aspects of life along the Amazon River.

BORA INDIAN PEOPLE

PACAYA - SAMIRIA

Pacaya-Samiria National Reserve of Peru. The largest reserve in the country encompasses 2,080,000 hectares (5,139,680 acres) between the Maranon and Ucayali rivers. This protected area contains 85 lakes which are home of 250 species of fish as well as both pink and gray fresh-water dolphins. In the jungle and flooded forest of the reserve 132 mammal species (13 of which are primates), 449 bird species and 250 reptile and amphibian species have been documented.

SQUIRREL COCKOO

The area originally set aside in 1940 became a national reserve in 1972. A number of ranger stations were set up to enforce reserve laws and monitor wildlife. The objectives of the reserve are to foster research and protection for all species of wildlife, foster socio-economic help for the local people and utilization of resources and tourism. Tourism plays an important role in that it brings in funds through an entrance fee that helps support the various programs and promotes awareness of the wildlife and plant resources within the reserve and the need for its continued protection.

CANARY-WINGED PARAKEET

The Pacaya-Samiria National reserve is a good place to see pink Dolphins, a huge birds, like Cormorants, King Fishers, White Egrets, Toucans and Macaws, as well as go fishing for some piranhas and other fish species.

The reserve is home to, and protects, almost all those species native to low-lying jungle that are threatened with extinction, including the Spider monkey, the giant nutria, and Manati, as well as the Harpy Eagle.

VICTORIA REGIA

The large number of lakes, creeks and swamps, the unique untouched scenery, the exuberant forest and the rich wildlife make the reserve an attractive destination for ecological tourism, scientific expeditions, exploration and adventure cruises.

Birds like.

WIRE-TAILED MANAKIN