Santiago Comaina Conservation Area

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El Paujil, a caruncle hokko
Gold forehead spider monkey

The 8,633 km² Santiago Comaina Conservation Area (Spanish: Zona Reserva Santiago Comaina ) was declared a nature reserve by the Peruvian government on January 21, 1999 in the northern Peruvian Amazon region in the Condorcanqui province . It is a so-called Peace Park , which is connected to the El Cóndor National Park in Ecuador .

history

When the war between Ecuador and Peru in the Cordillera del Cóndor in the form of skirmishes broke out in 1998 due to unclear border regulations , the dispute was resolved by the establishment of a Peace Park after an intervention by Argentina , Brazil , Chile and the USA came and a peace treaty was signed. The peace treaty was linked to the establishment and connection of two cross-border nature reserves, the El Condor National Park in Ecuador and the Santiago Comaina Conservation Area in Peru.

Flora and fauna

In this reserve numerous birds like the loud live IUCN endangered brush parakeet ( Leptosittaca branickii ) which also endangered Karunkelhokko ( Crax globulosa ) and the low-risk Andean condor ( Vultur gryphus ). Jaguars ( Panthera onca ), black caimans ( Melanosuchus niger ), crocodile caimans ( Caiman crocodilus ), squirrel monkeys ( Saimiri sp.) And golden- fronted spider monkeys ( Ateles belzebuth ) also live in the reserve . In 2001 Richard P. Vari and Antony S. Harold first described an endemic fish called Creagrutus gracilis , which belongs to the family of the real Salmer and comes from the Río Santiago . There are 474 species of butterflies in the park. 40 different orchid species thrive in the El Condor Mountains . Cedar , screw tree and various palm trees also grow in the reserve .

Others

The Shuar , Aguarunas and Huambisa ethnic groups live in the reserve along the Río Cenepa , Río Marañón , Río Nieva and Río Santiago .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on tbpa.net ( Memento of the original dated December 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 21, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tbpa.net
  2. ↑ Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, Vol 613, pp. 1-239. Phylogenetic study of the Neotropical fish genera Creagrutus Günther and Piabina Reinhardt (Teleostei: Ostariophysi: Characiformes), with a revision of the Cis-Andean species (Page 113) (English; PDF; 167 MB)

Coordinates: 4 ° 12 '34.1 "  S , 78 ° 2' 9.2"  W.