Bahuaja-Sonene National Park, National park in Madre de Dios and Puno, Peru.
Bahuaja-Sonene National Park is a protected rainforest across two regions that encompasses river valleys, hills, and mountain slopes. The terrain rises from about 500 meters to around 2450 meters, creating varied landscapes with different ecosystems.
Bahuaja-Sonene National Park was created on 17 July 1996 by Supreme Decree 012-96-AG, uniting part of the Tambopata-Candamo Reserved Zone with the Pampas del Heath National Sanctuary. On 4 September 2000, Supreme Decree 048-2000-AG added 554,362.75 hectares, including former oil Block 78, bringing the park to 1,091,416 hectares.
The Ese-Eja people gave names to the rivers that flow through the park: Bahuaja refers to the Tambopata and Sonene to the Heath. These names are woven into how people experience and understand the landscape today.
Access to the park is only possible by river routes, since the area has no developed road infrastructure and remains largely wild. Visitors should prepare for water-based travel and remote conditions.
The park protects the Pampas del Heath, the only humid tropical savanna in Peru, known as a palm savanna with Mauritia flexuosa aguajales. There the marsh deer and the maned wolf live at the eastern edge of the park, species rarely seen elsewhere in the country.
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