Yasuní National Park is the largest protected area in mainland Ecuador, containing 982,000 hectares of tropical rainforest. It has an incredible diversity of species, including over 500 bird species, 173 mammal species, 62 snake species, and 100 amphibian species. The park has the most diverse collection of trees in the world, with over 1,813 tree and shrub species identified so far. It also contains a vast number of insect, bat, primate, and other species, making it one of the most biodiverse places on Earth.
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1. What you'd like to visit tourist place?
I would love to know the ecological reserve yasuni IIT
WHY?
Pos its variety of species because it is the largest reserve of mainland Ecuador?
DESCRIPTION
Yasuní National Park is the largest protected area of mainland Ecuador. It has982,000
hectares of tropical rainforest, as the Ministerial Agreement of July 26, 1979, is
located within the provinces of Orellana, Pastaza and Napo. Within its territory there
are several types of vegetation, 500 species of birds, 173 species of mammals, 62
species of snakes and 100 species of amphibians.
Climate
The warm humid climate varies greatly according to geography and
geomorphology. The equator determined by its hot climate, influenced by a number of
factors such as wind, humidity, altitude and rainfall.
The temperature ranges between 18 and 36 degrees Celsius with an average of 24 to
26 degrees and annual rainfall varies between 2000 and 3000 mm.
BIODIVERSITY PARK
Plants. - The park protects one of the most diverse tree community in the world, with at
least 1,813 types of trees and shrub species and 300 species classified about that
have not yet been classified. The southern part known as the Intangible Zone, contain
more than 160 of these additional species. On a single hectare of Yasuní, there are
about 644 species of trees, just to cite one example.
2. There are over 450 types of liana species (vines), 313 species of vascular epiphytes,
epiphytes world record in the lowland forest (146 species in only 0.1 hectares).
Cedars, the ceiba, mahogany, Ahuano, guayacan, peach bruise and the hundreds of
plants and giant trees are ancient watchers of the deep green forest, the Pachamama
of thousands of living beings.
Birds. - 567 species have been documented, which makes this paradise one of the
most diverse sites for birds in the world. A true sanctuary for the conservation, protects
44% of the 1,300 bird species found in the Amazon, the region with the greatest
diversity of birds in the world. The harpy eagle, the parrot real, curassow, the hoatzin,
kingfishers, swallows, egrets and hundreds of species of birds, it is easy to appreciate
sailing the rivers and lakes of Yasuní.
Mammals. - Ecuador is considered to be the ninth country in the world in a variety of
mammals, with at least 173, 40% of the species found in the forests of the Amazon
basin, 90% of mammals in the Ecuadorian Amazon and the 46% of all mammal
species in Ecuador.
Primates. - The park harbors at least 10 species, making it among the most diverse of
primates in the world.
Bats. - The Yasuní contains 81 species of bats, 10% of the 986 known species, which
is the second largest reserves of marsupials in the world, surpassed only by the
Iwokroma Forest in Guyana, which contains 86 species.
Amphibians and Reptiles. - There have been 105 species of amphibians and 83
reptile species, Yasuní National Park seems to be the area with the greatest diversity
of herpetofauna throughout South America.
3. Fish. - An estimated 382 species of freshwater fish.
Insects. - Yasuní has more than 100 000 species of insects per hectare and 6 trillion
individuals per hectare, the highest diversity yet discovered in the world.
We have found 64 species of bees, the assembly richest in number from anywhere on
earth. Scientists have found 94 species of ants that nest in trees and fallen branches of
the greater wealth of species of army ants of tropical rainforests.
Inside the Yasuní find an extraordinary cultural diversity, the Waorani, the Kichwa and
Shuar some communities. These people, despite the invasion of their territory for 500
years by rubber tappers, settlers, oil, timber, and an absolute indifference of the state
and their governments have managed to resist and preserve a valuable knowledge.