Finca Las Piedras is the Alliance for a Sustainable Amazon’s research and education center in Peru’s Madre de Dios region, in the southern Peruvian Amazon. The site provides access to thousands of hectares of diverse Amazonian ecosystems, including ‘terra firme’ or upland rainforest dominated by Brazil nut (Bertholletia excelsa) and other tropical hardwoods and aquatic habitats ranging from streams to Mauritia palm swamps (‘aguajales’ locally). These habitats contain the full complement of top predators including 5 cat species and countless species of plants and other animals, thousands of which have been documented by our team.
Comfortable facilities for living and working on site and easy accessibility from the regional capital, Puerto Maldonado, make Finca Las Piedras the ideal base for exploration, research, and education in the Amazon.
Finca Las Piedras at a glance…
Location: Madre de Dios, Peru (lat. -12.226348°, lon. -69.112599°)
Distance to regional capital: Puerto Maldonado; 48 km, ~1 hr by car
Living facilities: Shared dorms, private rooms, laboratory space, dining hall, shared and private bathrooms & cold showers
Meals: 7am, 1pm, 6:30pm in the common dining hall
Electricity: 220 V provided by solar panels
- Year Founded
- 2016
- Year Joined OBFS
- 2020
- Size of Field Station (hectares)
- 1-100
- FSML Web Address
- https://www.sustainableamazon.org/finca-las-piedras
- Private nonprofit organization?
- Yes
- Universities affiliated / Parent Organization
- No
- Federal, state, or local governmental partners?
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No
- Member of the Virtual Field
- No