Santiago-Comaina Reserved Zone

The 8633 km ² large Santiago Comaina Conservation Area (Spanish: Zona Reserva Santiago Comaina ) was declared on 21 January 1999 in the northern Peruvian Amazon region in the Province of Condorcanqui the Peruvian government to the nature reserve. It is a so-called Peace Park, which is connected to the National Park El Cóndor in Ecuador.

History

When it came in 1998 due to unclear boundary rules to war between Ecuador and Peru in the Cordillera del Cóndor in the form of skirmishes, the conflict through the establishment of a Peace Park was resolved after it and to an intervention by Argentina, Brazil, Chile, the USA had come, and a peace treaty was concluded. The peace treaty was tied to the construction and connection of two cross-border conservation areas, the El Condor National Park in Ecuador and the Santiago - Comaina - reserve in Peru.

Flora and Fauna

In this reserve numerous birds such as the endangered IUCN brush Parakeet ( Leptosittaca branickii ), who also vulnerable Karunkelhokko ( crax globulosa ) and the low -risk Andean condor living ( Vultur gryphus ). Furthermore, living in the reserve jaguars (Panthera onca ), Black Caimans ( Melanosuchus niger), crocodile caiman ( Caiman crocodilus ), squirrel monkeys ( Saimiri sp.) And Golden-fronted spider monkey ( Ateles belzebuth ). In 2001, Richard P. Vari and Antony S. Harold for a new science of endemic fish, which belongs to the family of True tetras and comes from the Río Santiago, described for the first time called Creagrutus gracilis. The Park populate 474 butterfly species and to the mountains of El Condor are 40 different orchids. In reserve cedar, screw pine and palm trees grow.

Others

In the sanctuary, the ethnicities of the Shuar, Aguarunas and Huambisas along the rivers Cenepa, Marañón and Santiago Nieva live.