Posada Amazonas

Main features:

1. Excellent access from Puerto Maldonado
   
2. Close association with native community (Ese’eja tribe)
   
3. Canopy tower
   
4. Winner of numerous ecotourism awards
   

 

Excellent access. Infrastructure built on Native Community land. Profit share with community. Basic research facilities. 35 m high canopy platform. 4 forest types. 1 oxbow lake. Awards: Conde Nast Ecotourism award (2000), CI Ecotourism Excellence Award (2000), WRI New Ventures Award (2001), BGTW Silver Otter Award (2001), UNDP Equator Initiative Award (2002), ITB (Berlin, Germany) 2006.

Size:	80 ecotourists
	4 Researchers
	2 assistants

Journey timer: 45 mins by bus, 45 mins boat = 1 hr 30 mins total

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Primates:
	Brown capuchin	(Cebus apella)
	Dusky titi monkey	(Callicebus brunneus)
	Night monkey	(Aotus nigriceps)
	Red howler monkey	(Alouatta seniculus)
	Saddleback tamarin	(Saguinus fuscicollis)
	Squirrel monkey	(Saimiri boliviensis)

 

Research links:

Asociación para la Niñez y su Ambiente (ANIA)

Duke University

Earthwatch

Frankfurt Zoological Society

Manchester Metropolitan University

Stanford University

University of East Anglia (UEA)