List of national parks in Peru
Peru has 15 designated national parks . These arelooked afterby the Servicio Nacional de Areas Naturales Protegidas por el Estado SERNANP (National Agency for the Protection and Conservation of Natural Areas).
Their total area of 103,941.60 km² corresponds to about 8% of the country's area (2018).
number | designation | Date of expulsion |
Date of adjustment |
region | Area in ha |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
PN 01 | Cutervo National Park | 09/08/1961 | 08/03/2006 | Cajamarca | 8,214.23 |
PN 02 | Tingo María National Park | 05/14/1965 | Huánuco | 4,777 | |
PN 03 | Manú National Park | 05/29/1973 | 07/11/2002 | Cusco and Madre de Dios | 1,716,295.22 |
PN 04 | Huascarán National Park | 07/01/1975 | Ancash | 340,000 | |
PN 05 | Cerros de Amotape National Park | 07/22/1975 | 07/07/2006 | Tumbes and Piura | 151,561.27 |
PN 06 | Río Abiseo National Park | 08/11/1983 | San Martín | 274,520 | |
PN 07 | Yanachaga Chemillén National Park | 08/29/1986 | Pasco | 122,000 | |
PN 08 | Bahuaja Sonene National Park | 07/17/1996 | 04.09.2000 | Madre de Dios and Puno | 1,091,416 |
PN 09 | Cordillera Azul National Park | 05/21/2001 | San Martín , Loreto , Ucayali and Huánuco | 1,353,190.85 | |
PN 10 | Otishi National Park | 01/14/2003 | 05/30/2003 | Junín and Cusco | 305,973.05 |
PN 11 | Alto Purus National Park | 11/18/2004 | Ucayali and Madre de Dios | 2,510,694.41 | |
PN 12 | Ichigkat Muja National Park - Cordillera del Cóndor | 08/09/2007 | Amazon | 88,477 | |
PN 13 | Güeppí Sekime National Park | 25.10.2012 | Loreto | 203,628.51 | |
PN 14 | Sierra del Divisor National Park | 11/08/2015 | Loreto and Ucayali | 1,354,485.10 | |
PN 15 | Yaguas National Park | 10/01/2018 | Loreto | 868,927.57 |
source
- SINANPE: Áreas Naturales Protegidas ( Memento from April 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 121 kB) from October 26, 2012.
Web links
Commons : National parks of Peru - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files