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Manu Cultural Zone
- Manu Rain Forest
- Manu Cultural Zone
- Manu Reserved Zone
- Birds in Manu
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- Plants and Trees in Manu
- Reptiles in Manu
- Amphibians In Manu
The Cultural Zone is one of the three zones from Manu National Park which covers high mountains, cloud forest amd low jungle.
In this area there are small villages, setlers and native comunities working in productive activieties such as agriculture and lumber at a low scale, since this activities are controled by the Ministery of Agriculture and Park Authorities.
One of the porpouses of this controled area is to act as a buffer zone to the Reserved and Intangible Zones.
Could Forest
Crossing over the eastern edge of the Andes, travelers to Manu National Park, often encounters a thick blanket of clouds.
This is the beginning of the Cloud Forest, this mysterious, ghostlylit forest live the spectacular Cook of the Rock, Spectacle bear and scores of dripping tree ferns, bromeliads and Orchids. Ranging in elevation from 11,500 to 4,500 feet (3,500 to 1,500m.a.s.l.), the Cloud Forest is one of the least studied of environments, at least 50% of its plant species are found nowhere else on earth.
Heavy mists and frequent rains (up to 23 feet, or 6 meters annually) support the cloud forest's dense, stunted canopy of evergreen trees. In a process called "cloud stripping", the leaves cause the condensation of the moisture from the clouds. Water is therefore continually forming on the plant surfaces and dripping towards the ground.
The perpetual humidity of the Cloud forest makes an ideal home for epiphytes - plants that live on other plants and take their moisture and nutrients from their surroundings, not the ground. As a dirt accumulate on branches, lichens and mosses begin a colonization process that soon followed by ferns, bromeliads and orchids.
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