Río Abiseo National Park
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How it came to be
Río Abiseo National Park lies on the eastern slope of the Andes in the San Martín region of northern Peru. People lived here from the pre-ceramic era, around 6000 BC, until before European colonisation. By the 15th century complex societies had formed, trading as far as the Pacific coast and the Andes of Ecuador.
The best-known site, Gran Pajatén, stands on a forested ridge and is attributed to the Chachapoyas culture. It has at least 26 circular stone buildings decorated with slate mosaics of human, bird and geometric motifs. In 1965 villagers from Pataz guided the explorer Gene Savoy to the site, and he publicised it.
The park was created in 1983, largely to protect the yellow-tailed woolly monkey, long thought extinct. Since 1985, 36 archaeological sites have been recorded, and because of the fragility of its nature and ruins the park has been closed to tourism since 1986. It was inscribed in 1990 and its boundaries were changed in 1992.
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