Giant Monkey Frog

The Matsés National Reserve was established by Supreme Decree No. 014-2009- MINAM on August 26, 2009. Its objective is to “Contribute to the conservation of the natural resources existing in the interfluve between the Gálvez, Tapiche and Blanco rivers, allowing the Matsés population to continue with their traditional, permanent and sustainable use”; it also has an area of 420,635.34 hectares and is located between the districts of Requena, Soplín and Yaquerana, province of Requena, department of Loreto.
Its establishment implies the recognition of a large territory that the Matsés natives have used for hunting, fishing, and gathering, adjacent to their current territory.
The Matsés National Reserve is located in the Amazon plain and has three major landscape units: hills, terraces and floodplains. Among its forest types are the white sand or varillales, dry land forests and flooded and swampy forests. In addition, its presence makes possible the existence of an uninterrupted binational biological corridor of more than three million hectares that includes the Sierra del Divisor National Park in Peru and three more natural protected areas in Brazil.
It is also home to a very complete sample of the biological diversity of the forests of the Peruvian Amazon. It is estimated that it contains 22% of the mammals, 46% of the birds, 36% of the amphibians, 38% of the reptiles and 47% of the fish known for this region. It also has high socio-cultural and scientific values, as well as great tourism potential.