The department of Madre de Dios is located in the southeast of the country

Madre de Dios

The department of Madre de Dios is located in the southeast of the country. In the north it borders Ucayali, in the south and in the west with Punoy in the east with Brazil and Bolivia. Its territory covers areas of high jungle and jungle. Its capital is Puerto Maldonado, in the province of Tambopata.
 
Its climate is tropical warm and humid with an average temperature of 17 ° C to 20 ° C in the months of June and July and a maximum of up to 36 ° C in the months of December to March.

 Madre de Dios

Madre de Dios is mainly formed by three alluvial plains and up to four levels of terraces. The lowest are subject to annual flooding and are generally swampy.
 
The south of Madre de Dios is dominated by the buttresses of the Carabaya Range. To the west, in the area where the springs of the Manu River are, there are hills of low elevation, among which is the Fitzcarrald Isthmus, which form the watershed between the Madre de Dios and Urubamba rivers.

Tourism in Madre de Dios. Lush, Madre de Dios is part of the Peruvian jungle of infinite forests and sinuous rivers that run into the ocean, Madre de Dios is an apartment where life abounds in every corner. Puerto Maldonado, the capital city from where after an hour and a half of walking is Lake Sandoval, surrounded by aguajales, orchids, lupunas, mahogany and Mauritian palm trees up to 30 meters high. Maldonado is an obligatory step to access some of the national parks and reserves in the area and has been, at different times, an important center for the exploitation of rubber, wood, gold and oil. Currently two of the main economic activities of the department are ecotourism and chestnut extraction.