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PUERTO MALDONADO
The canoe pushes through the mist,
as if to tear it apart and cuta path
for the hesitant rays of light
unable to find an opening in the
thick, hazy, almost impenetrable
cloak. The haze seems to shroud
everything in a dawn of diffused
lines and shades, in which gnarled
trunks and mud paths are sensed
rather than seen.
But a insistent breeze little by
little blows the fog of the languid
dawn away. The shadows disappear. No
longer is anything sensed. The
forest is made visible, a grand,
extraordinary green labyrinth… and
an ocelot, wise, intrepid, silent,
slips away from those adventurous
men that travel the Madre de Dios
river, a paradise of biodiversity in
the southeast of Peru.
This is an exuberant and vigorous
land that has not yet been punished
by the destructive claws of
civilization. The jungle is
ferocious and intricate, hot and
oppressive, but rich in life. In
this area of the Amazon -
mythologized by the Spanish
conquerors as El Dorado - the
greatest variety of animal and plant
species on the planet coexist in
perfect harmony.
There are three conservation areas
in Madre de Dios of great importance:
the Manu Biosphere Reserve, declared
a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in
1987, the Tambopata - Candamo
Reserve, with intact populations of
several endangered species, such as
the giant river otter and the Harpy
eagle, and the Bahuaja-Sonene
National Park, home to some 450
different species of birds.
Madre de Dios can only be described
as a miracle of nature: A world of
gigantic trees, powerful rivers and
thick fog, in which man is an
outsider, a strange being disturbed
by the whispers of the inhabitants
of the jungle as he walks its
tortuous trails. Here silence never
reigns. Here anything could happen.
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Peru
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