Las Piedras District

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Las Piedras
District
Distrito LasPiedras MadreDeDios.svg
Location of Las Piedras in the Tambopata province
Country Flag of Peru.svg  Peru
Region Madre de Dios
Province Tambopata
FoundedDecember 26, 1912
Capital Las Piedras
Government
 •  Mayor José Angel Ayala Apaza
Area
 • Total
7,032.21 km2 (2,715.15 sq mi)
Elevation
260 m (850 ft)
Population
 (2005 census)
 • Total
6,072
 • Density0.86/km2 (2.2/sq mi)
Time zone UTC-5 (PET)
UBIGEO 170103

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; and 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]

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 . hdl: 10171/60364 . 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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