POSADA AMAZONAS FACT SHEET
Posada Amazonas is 23 bedroom lodge located on the banks of the Tambopata River in
southeastern Amazonian Peru. It is owned by the Ese’eja Native Community of
Tambopata.
LOCATION
Posada Amazonas is located on the Ese’eja Native Community´s territory and is
directly adjacent to the 1.5 million hectare Tambopata Candamo Reserved Zone.
ACCESS
Fly from Lima or Cusco on a daily scheduled commercial flight to Puerto Maldonado and
travel by boat three and half hours up the Tambopata River to Posada Amazonas. The lodge
is located less than 10 minutes walking from the river
INFRASTRUCTURE AND FACILITIES
Posada Amazonas is built using the same traditional materials and
architectural techniques that native communities throughout the Amazon use for building
their homes: wood, palm fronds, wild cane and clay. The lodge itself consists of an
interconnected complex of four sections:
rooms, dining area and kitchen, relaxation area and internal support facilities. The
entire roof of the lodge is constructed using high quality crisneja palm fronds, whereas
the floors are of tropical mahogany. Interconnecting passageways are also roofed.
The rooms were built from four interconnected 9 X 24 meter structures with five or six
rooms per facility, for a total of 23 double bedrooms. The rooms are 7 x 4 meters so they
can comfortably hold three beds, although they are set up for two. The walls dividing each
room are built using cane and clay, and extend from the floor to the roof making each room
completely private. The combination of clay and cane will achieve three important
objectives: isolating noise, regulating heat and providing a charming final
appearance. Each room has a large window facing the forest, and a second small
window on the opposite side, set up very high, to keep the rooms well ventilated. Beds are
sized for Americans or Europeans (1.05m X 2.05m) with spring mattresses and a
mosquito net. Each room has a private bathroom with hot and cold water in the shower, cold
water in the sink and a flush toilet. Rooms have individual locking doors and
bathrooms have gates with curtains.
The dining area is designed to host 80 people at the same time. It can also be used as a
conference room and as a slide presentation area. The lounge is designed for 80
people at once with a bar and a fire place, several low tables and hammocks so that people
can play table games or cards at night or during the rain.
TAMBOPATA RESEARCH CENTER FACT SHEET
Tambopata Research Center is located on a half-hectare clearing 50 meters from the
Tambopata River and 300 meters from the largest known macaw clay lick. TRC was built with
the objective of lodging tourists and researchers and of protecting the adjacent clay lick.
LOCATION
Tambopata Research Center is located in the uninhabited 700,000 hectare core area of the
Tambopata Candamo Reserved Zone in southeastern Amazonian Peru.
INFRASTRUCTURE AND FACILITIES
Tambopata Research Center is composed of four interconnected, hatch-roofed buildings
whose design is based on traditional low-impact native architecture providing the creature comforts
necessary for enhancing our wilderness experience without compromising authenticity.
All buildings and interconnecting passageways are raised on four-foot stilts built from
palm trunks or hardwoods. The main building is a 33 foot by 100 foot platform divided into
13 double rooms. Each bedroom is furnished with two beds draped in mosquito nettings, a
chair, a night table with a kerosene wind lamp, and a table for luggage and clothing. Each
room is also designed to have a permanent, unobstructed view of the forest surrounding the
clearing in order to maximize wildlife observation time. To the left of the main building
a 20 foot-long, roofed passageway connects to the bathrooms containing 4 flush toilets and
4 shower stalls. To the right of the main building a 15 foot-long, roofed passageway
connects to the dining and meeting room which in turn is connected to the kitchen.
The effect of having such a small clearing for TRC can be felt in terms of wildlife
encounters. Thanks to the lodge’s architecture, the small scale of our operations and
the region’s high wildlife densities, the TRC clearing is almost as good as our
25 kilometer trail system for wildlife encounters with the tamer, less shy creatures such
as tayra, (a large rain forest weasel much like a land otter), agouti, and troops of brown
capuchin and squirrel monkeys. Bird species which frequent the garden include:
Blue-crowned Motmot, Black-fronted Nunbird, Variable Chachalaca, Blue-crowned Trogon,
Collared Forest Falcon, Blue Dacnis or the Green-and-Gold Tanager. Our flock of
rescued Scarlet and Red and green macaws, affectionately known as the Chicos, divides its
time foraging in the forest and interacting with researchers and tourists at the
lodge. At night, ocelots, pacarana, night monkeys and Red-brocket deer have been
seen around TRC with relative frequency.
THE NATURAL HISTORY OF TAMBOPATA RESEARCH CENTER
WORLD’S LARGEST KNOWN MACAW CLAY LICK. The macaw clay lick, is a huge, 50 meter tall
cliff of reddish clay that extends for about 500 meters along the west bank of the
Tambopata River. On most clear mornings of the year, and depending on the season, scores
and sometimes even hundreds parrots and macaws flock to the lick. Six species of macaws
and nine species of parrots as well as guans, tapir, capybara, howler monkeys and
pigeons come to the clay lick to obtain hard to find minerals that are only present in
high concentrations on the lick's soil. |
the dining and meeting room
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