Madre de Dios region

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Madre de Dios region
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Basic data
Country Peru
Capital Puerto Maldonado
surface 85,183 km²
Residents 137,300 (2015)
density 1.6 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2 PE-MDD
Website regionmadrededios.gob.pe/new/ (Spanish)
politics
Gobernador regional Luis Hidalgo Okimura (2019-2022)
Provinces of the Madre de Dios region
Provinces of the Madre de Dios region

Coordinates: 12 ° 32 ′  S , 69 ° 29 ′  W

The region Madre de Dios [ ˈmaðɾe ðe ðjos ] (Spanish Región Madre de Dios , Quechua Diyuspa Mama suyu , in English "Mother of God") is a region in southeastern Peru , on the border with Brazil and Bolivia . It covers 85,183 square kilometers with only 137,300 inhabitants (2015). Almost three quarters of them live in the capital Puerto Maldonado , which is around 400 km east of Cusco . The region lies on the southwestern edge of the Amazon basin - it is the southernmost region in the Peruvian Amazon.

Named the region after the eponymous river , which on the east side of the Andes rises, but then not like the Peruvian headwaters of the Amazon River , flows north, but to the east, across the far north of Bolivia, where he in the Beni River empties , which then forms the Rio Madeira with the Río Mamoré in Brazil , the first large Amazon tributary below the junction of the Solimões and Rio Negro .

geography

Almost the entire area of ​​the region is covered by tropical rainforest , which is famous for its biodiversity. The Manu National Park and the Tambopata-Candamo protected area were established in 1990 to preserve them . Madre de Dios lives mainly from tourism , as well as from the cultivation of rubber , gold panning and logging . Larger rivers in the region are the Río Madre de Dios with a length of 1150 km , of which 667 km are in Peru and 483 km in Bolivia, and the 900 km long Río Tahuamanu with 450 km each in Peru and Bolivia.

see also: Lago Sandoval

Provinces

The region is divided into three provinces and these in turn into 11 districts:

province Capital
Manu Salvación
Tahuamanu Iñapari
Tambopata Puerto Maldonado

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