"Manu National Park, one of the largest and most significant National Parks in South America, extends from above 4000 m in the Andean Cordillera of Peru's Department of Cuzco to 300 m on the southern Amazonian floodplain in the Department of Madre de Dios.

Seen from the air, this portion of the tropical forest is only a small fraction of "one of the most species-rich forest types in the world, and one of the only remaining regions of the rich-soil forests that originally characterized much of the eastern Andean forelands."
Lowlands Of Manu National Park

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