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Tambopata Reserve
 
The numbers are not only record-breaking, but
astounding:
1,234 types of butterflies, 592 species of birds, 152
varieties of dragonflies, 135 kinds of ants, 127 species of amphibians, 103
types of mammals, 94 species of fish, 74 kinds of reptiles, 40 species of
termites, 39 varieties of bees, and 13 endangered species. An
environmental diversity so great that at least 11 different types of
forest co-exist here.
This is the Tambopata Reserve in southeastern Peru, a remote portion of the
Upper Amazon Basin rain forest. The Tambopata River is the highway in
3,654,548 reserve. Along its shores you can find species from three
different ecosystems, the Amazonian plain, the Andean foothills and the slopes
of the Pampas.
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