Cutervo National Park

The National Park Cutervo is the oldest National Park in Peru. He was adopted by the Law N º 13694. Major contribution to the founding of the National Park on September 8, 1961, the biologist Dr. Salomón Vilchez Murga ( 1907-1993 ), a pioneer of environmental protection in Peru. First, the park was limited to 25 square kilometers, but was later expanded to 82 square kilometers. It is located in the district of San Andres de Cutervo Cutervo in the province in the Cajamarca region.

Protection goal

Objective of the Act is the protection and the sustainable development of unique flora and fauna and the preservation of the peculiar characteristics of the Cordillera de los Tarros.

Fauna

The park is best known for its many caves where fat Schwalme ( Steatornis caripensis ) live. In a stream in the caves also happens to a climbing catfish called Astroblepus rosei. In addition to the Peruvian national bird, the Andean cock rock ( Rupicola peruvianus ) is found in the park and the Goldkopftrogon ( Pharomachrus auriceps ) and the Giant Hummingbird ( Patagona gigas).

Among the mammals in the park include the jaguar, the ocelot, the spectacled bear, the South American river otter ( Lontra longicaudis ), the pampas cat, the white-tailed deer, collared peccary, the, the Nine-banded Armadillo and the mountain tapir.

In 1982, Mateu & Bellés found in the caves of the beetles Andinorites striatus, Andinorites troglophilus, Andinorites convexus, Andinorites vilchezi, Andinorites peruvianus. , Peudotrechisibus ( Pseudotrechisibus sphaericus ) and Incatrechus ( Incatrechus pilosus ).

Flora

In the park there is a very diverse flora of meadows on dwarf forests ( coppice ) extends to typical cloud forests. Among the plants of the park include Chinarindenbaum trees ( Cinchona sp.), Zedrelen ( Cedrela sp.), Lauraceae ( Nectandra sp.), Leading to the walnuts belonging Juglans neotropica and alder Alnus called jorullensis.