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Peru

270
Total Protected Areas
78 With management effectiveness evaluations
Terrestrial and Inland Waters Protected Areas
Marine Protected Areas
Other effective area-based conservation measures
1
Total Other effective area-based conservation measures
Polygons/Points ratio
Polygons 97%
Points 3%
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Terrestrial and inland waters protected area coverage

22.52% Coverage

291,026km2 Land area covered

1,292,211km2 Total land area

17.30% 6th National Report coverage

PAME

14.89% With management effectiveness evaluations

192,474km2 Areas assessed

Marine protected area Coverage

7.89% Coverage

67,479km2 Marine and coastal area covered

854,754km2 Total marine and coastal area

0.30% 6th National Report coverage

PAME

7.76% With management effectiveness evaluations

66,321km2 Areas assessed

Disclaimer: These statistics might differ from those reported officially by countries due to difference in methodologies and datasets used to assess protected area coverage and differences in the base maps used to measure terrestrial and marine area of a country or territory.

IUCN Management Categories

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Governance types

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Sources 6

  1. Ramsar Wetlands of International Importance Updated: 2023 Ramsar Secretariat, on behalf of Ramsar Contracting Parties
  2. UNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve Updated: 2020 UNESCO-MAB
  3. Protected Areas of Peru Updated: 2024 Operativa Funcional de Gestion de la Informacion del SERNANP; Responsable de la Gestión del Información Espacial del SERNANP
  4. Wampis Territory Updated: 2021 Gobierno Territorial Autónomo Nación Wampis (GTANW)
  5. UNESCO World Heritage Sites Updated: 2024 IUCN World Heritage Programme
  6. UNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserves Updated: 2020 UNESCO-MAB and UNEP-WCMC

Designations

  • 91.85%
  • 7.78%
  • 0.37%

National designations

248
  • Communal Reserve 10
  • Historic Sanctuary 4
  • Hunting Preserve 2
  • Landscape Reserve 2
  • National Park 15
  • National Reserve 18
  • National Sanctuary 9
  • Private Conservation Area 139
  • Protection Forest 6
  • Regional Conservation Area 32
  • Restricted Zone 8
  • Wildlife Refuge 3

Regional designations

0

    International designations

    21
    • Ramsar Site, Wetland of International Importance 13
    • UNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve 4
    • World Heritage Site (natural or mixed) 4

    Other designations

    1
    • Wampis Territory (non-state protected area) 1

    citation

    UNEP-WCMC (2025). Protected Area Profile for Peru from the World Database on Protected Areas, April 2025. Available at: www.protectedplanet.net

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    UNEP-WCMC and IUCN (2025), Protected Planet: The World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) and World Database on Other Effective Area-based Conservation Measures (WD-OECM) [Online], April 2025, Cambridge, UK: UNEP-WCMC and IUCN. Available at: www.protectedplanet.net.