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The Los Amigos Conservation Area is in Madre de Dios, Peru, and encompasses approximately 140,000 hectares (ca. 400,000 acres) offorest.
The Los Amigos Research Station sits at about 270 m above sea leave
and is located at (degrees.minutes.seconds): 12.34.173 S and 70.06.069W. The station consists of several hundred hectares of property with
35 km of trails that wind through about nine different habitat types,from high terrace forest to palm swamp to flooded forest. There are
two private cabins, a dormitory, a two-story tent/hammock shelter, ashade-house plant nursery, cookhouse, and a cafeteria that can handle
about 50 people. A canopy walk stretches off of the high terraceforest into the canopy of a towering Brazil nut tree (
As the polishing finishes are being put on the main station, the crew carpenters and builders working under Renan Valega (station/concessionoperations specialist and manager and expert ornithologist) is initiating the building of remote camps that will provide long-termresearchers with the chance for basic accomodations at selected sites throughout the concession. The remote camps will include tent/hammockplatforms, a water supply, and waste disposal.
We travel by car from Puerto Maldonado to Laberinto, which takes about 40 minutes in optimal driving conditions. During rains, the roadbecomes muddy and the travel time increases, sometimes drastically. From Laberinto we travel in one of the Los Amigos boats upriverapproximately 5-7 hours, depending on water level and the amount of rubbish floating on the water. After a full day's travel, we usuallyarrive at the Los Amigos Research Station by about 4-5 p.m. The boat travels about every two days on average.
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