Las Piedras District

Las Piedras District is one of four districts of the province Tambopata in Peru.[1] Bordered by the Rio Mavila on the northern boundary and the Rio Las Piedras to the south, the district comprises typical uninhabited lowland neotropical rainforest:[2] Largely moist broadleaf evergreen or semi-evergreen with overstorey canopy and emergent crowns, medium layer canopy, lower canopy, shrub level and understory.[3] The forest-structure is influenced by the flood regimes of the Las Piedras River, a highly meandering, white-water affluent of the Madre de Dios River.[4]

Las Piedras
District
Country Peru
RegionMadre de Dios
ProvinceTambopata
FoundedDecember 26, 1912
CapitalLas Piedras
Government
 • MayorJosé Angel Ayala Apaza
Area
 • Total7,032.21 km2 (2,715.15 sq mi)
Elevation
260 m (850 ft)
Population
 (2005 census)
 • Total6,072
 • Density0.86/km2 (2.2/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC-5 (PET)
UBIGEO170103

References
  1. (in Spanish) Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática. Banco de Información Distrital Archived 2008-04-23 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved April 11, 2008.
  2. Tobes, Ibon; Ramos-Merchante, Adrián; Araujo-Flores, Julio; Pino-del-Carpio, Andrea; Ortega, Hernán; Miranda, Rafael (2021). "Fish Ecology of the Alto Madre de Dios River Basin (Peru): Notes on Electrofishing Surveys, Elevation, Palm Swamp and Headwater Fishes". Water. 13 (8): 1038. doi:10.3390/w13081038. ISSN 2073-4441.
  3. Wade, Timothy; Riitters, Kurt; Wickham, James; Jones, K. Bruce (2003-09-04). "Distribution and Causes of Global Forest Fragmentation". Conservation Ecology. 7 (2). doi:10.5751/ES-00530-070207. hdl:10535/2530. ISSN 1195-5449.
  4. Hamilton, Stephen; Kellndorfer, Josef; Lehner, Bernhard; Tobler, Mathias (2007-09-01). "Remote sensing of floodplain geomorphology as a surrogate for biodiversity in a tropical river system (Madre de Dios, Peru)". Geomorphology. 89 (1–2): 23–38. Bibcode:2007Geomo..89...23H. doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2006.07.024.

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