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Puerto Maldonado: is the main city of the
Departemant of Madre de Dios, Peru. The city itself has not too many
tourist attractions, but it is the starting point for jungle trips.
Puerto Maldonado (Lat 12:36:12S Long 69:11:31W) is a city in
Southeastern Peru, capital of the Madre de Dios Region founded
originally for the collection of wild rubber.
It is in the Amazon forest, 55 km west of the Bolivian border, on
the confluence of the Tambopata and Madre de Dios River, a tributary
of the Amazon River.
Nearby are the Manu and Tambopata-Candamo national parks and
Bahuaja-Sonene national reserved area. These are some of the most
pristine primary rain forests in the world. There are several
tourist eco-lodges within the reserves which are accessed by boat
from Puerto Maldonado. One of the main attractions are the hundreds
of macaws which congregate at various "colpas", or "collpas", a
Quechua word which means salted earth, (clay licks) daily to eat
clay.
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