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unusual facts about Tambopata-Candamo



Ascensión Nicol y Goñi

After a journey of 24 days crossing the Andes to a region where white women had never before traveled, they arrived in Puerto Maldonado, a small village in the Amazon basin, situated between two large rivers, the Madre de Dios and the Tambopata, along which all communication took place.

Auguste Dreyfus

In March 1876 a new contract for guano sales was agreed with the Peruvian Guano Company, formed by the London merchant bank Raphael & Sons, and the Peruvians Carlos Gonzales Candamo and Arturo Heeren.

Francis Bryce

Son of John Pablo Bryce and wife María de las Mercedes González de Candamo y Iriarte, sister of Manuel González de Candamo y Iriarte (1841–1904), President of Peru (1903–1904).

Francisco Cuervo y Valdés

Francisco Cuervo y Valdés, was born on June 16, 1615 in the small town of Llamero, in the municipality of Candamo, Asturias, Spain.

Quintus Varius Severus

Quintus Varius Severus Hybrida was from Sucro, Spain (in northern Spain, in the contemporary municipality of Candamo) and was the first senator of the Republic, who came from the Spanish province.

Southwestern Amazonian moist forests

Tourism, while an opportunity for conservation, is also proving to be a threat to the fragile ecosystems of the Tambopata-Candamo region along the Madre de Dios River basin, and along the Beni River in Bolivia (Rurrenabaque).

Tambopata

Tambopata Province in the department of Madre de Dios in south-eastern Peru

Tambopata Macaw Project

In 1991 and 1992 the researchers accelerated the formation of natural dead palm cavities by cutting off the crowns of 23 live Mauritia flexuosa palms in a natural monoculture of thousands of these palms in a 0.5 km2 swamp near the Tambopata Research Center (TRC), as blue-and-yellow macaws almost exclusively nest in dead Mauritia palms.

White-bellied Parrot

It is generally fairly common throughout its range and is easily seen in a wide range of protected areas, such as the Manú National Park and Tambopata-Candamo in Peru, Cristalino State Park (near Alta Floresta), Xingu National Park and Amazônia National Park in Brazil, and Madidi National Park in Bolivia.


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