Rupa-rupa
Rupa-Rupa ( Quechua rupha "burning, hot"), also Selva alta ( Spanish for "high / high forest"), is an altitude on the eastern slope of the Andes from approx. 400 to 1000 m above sea level (after Javier Pulgar Vidal ).
climate
The climate is hot; even in the winter of the southern hemisphere, the temperature does not drop below 15 ° C, but falls as the altitude rises above sea level. It is the rainiest zone in the Andean region.
The rupa rupa has a complex orography .
literature
- Pulgar Vidal, Javier: Geografía del Perú; Las Ocho Regiones Naturales del Perú . Edit. Universo SA, Lima 1979.