Pacaya-Samiria National Reserve

The Pacaya-Samiria National Reserve was created in 1982 and has a surface area over two million hectares. Spread across four provinces, Loreta, Requena, Ucayali, and Alto Amazonas, the Pacaya-Samiria National Reserve is the largest reserve in Peru and the second largest in the Amazon region.

With this large size comes a wide variety of flora and fauna. Within the Pacaya-Samiria National Reserve there are 330 bird species, 150 species of reptiles and amphibians, 132 mammalian species, 220 fish species and 847 species of vegetation.

The Pacaya-Samiria National Reserve contains 4 species on the verge of extinction. They are the black spider monkey, the yellow chested spider monkey, the woolly monkey, and the giant otter.

The Pacaya-Samiria National Reserve is accessed via the Amazon River, from Iquitos to the juncture of the Marañón and Ucayali Rivers.