505,000 USD

Amazon Rainforest Land for Sale in Manu, Cusco-Madre De Dios, Peru

404-Acre Lot of Peruvian Amazon Rainforest

Asking Price: 505,000 USD

We are selling our 404-acre Amazon rainforest lot located in Manu District, Manu Province, Madre de Dios Region, Peru. The location is in the southeastern part of Peru, close to the Bolivian border.

The property measures 163.76 hectares (404.65 acres). It is 690 meters (2,263 feet) wide and 2,500 meters (8,202 feet) long. Within the property, there are 2 hectares (4.9 acres) of pasture. The average terrain altitude is 432 meters above sea level (1,417 feet).

Google map coordinates: 12°33'25.3"S 71°10'25.3"W (-12.557028, -71.173694).

From the property to Manu National Park Reserve Zone, it is 1.5 hours by motorboat. The Manu airplane landing field (local airport) is 1 hour by motorboat. From here, you can fly in small airplanes to Cusco or to Puerto Maldonado and from there to the rest of the world. The Amarakaeri Communal Reserve is 6 hours walking from the property eastward on a jungle path, ideal for adventure and expedition activities. The next village is Puerto Nuevo Eden, where you will find small grocery stores and land transport to Salvacion town (the district capital) and to Cusco. The nearest hospital with doctors and nurses is 30 minutes by car (18 kilometers) or 30 minutes by motorboat from the property.

From Lima, Peru's capital, access is via a 1.5-hour flight to Cusco, and from Cusco either by small flight (45 minutes) or by truck (10 to 12 hours' drive). From Cusco, you can also take public transport to Salvacion town (9 to 10 hours) and from there to the property by truck (2 to 3 more hours). From Cusco, local flight companies offer public flights to Manu three times a week. This is a 45-minute flight, and from there, it is 1.5 hours by motorboat along the Madre de Dios River. You can access the property by boat along the Madre de Dios River from Puerto Maldonado or from Atalaya. You can access the property by local bus from Lima to Cusco and from Cusco to the property. You can also access by public small flights, and there is also a possibility of chartering planes to whatever dates suit you best. The road crossing by the property is a new affirmed dirt road and is part of an annex to the main road uniting the Atlantic Ocean (from Brazil) with the Pacific Ocean (Lima, Peru).

Bordering Manu National Park and the Amarakaeri Communal Reserve, the property is part of the local tourism and agricultural association called Nuevo Eden, with 20 members (we are member number 3). The nearby neighbors are local families working in small agricultural production. The property's front side borders the Alto Madre de Dios River. The back side of the property borders national territories belonging to the Peruvian government and designated for intangible uses as well as a buffer zone for the Amarakaeri Communal Reserve. There is a native community called Shipiteari, established only 26 years ago, as before they were nomads. People living here belong to the ethnic group of Matsigengas. The native community is just 20 minutes by boat from the lodge on the other side of the Alto Madre de Dios River.

There are some locals practicing timber nearby but not on large scales and always with legal permits.

Manu is a bird paradise, where it is easy to spot up to 7 types of primates of the 13 living in the area. Rodents and large mammals such as tapirs, giant river otters, and jaguars also live in this area. The landscape around the property is at the end of the subtropical rainforest and the beginning of the Amazon Basin rainforest. The last mountains to be seen from the property are the western Andes Mountain Range, some of them up to 1,200 meters high. The property terrain altitudes vary between 430 and 200 meters above sea level. The Alto Madre de Dios River is an affluent of the Madre de Dios River, which passes by Puerto Maldonado city in Peru, crosses along the northern part of Bolivia, and then enters Brazil as an affluent before finally ending as an affluent of the great Amazon River.

At the property, the forest is typical primary forest with high trees up to 40 to 50 meters. About 300 meters from the pasture area in a northwestern direction, the terrain has a drop of about 20 meters. This change of level, even when it is only 20 meters difference, gives us drier soil and secondary forest. This is what in the Amazon basin we call "altura" or higher Amazon plateau. A few meters from the property pasture, there is a small river crossing along the property (from side to side) with clear water. There are no lakes nearby the property, but many small lakes are a few hours' walk into the Amazon. There is a yearly land tax of around $400. In an eventual deal, the buyer pays the buy/sell documentation, and we, the sellers, deliver the land with all taxes updated and paid.

Our Amazon rainforest property also has potential to supply prime material (exquisite Amazon) for scientific or medicinal research and studies. For example, the creation of a botanical garden would make this property the only one in the Region of Manu with a botanical garden. That is to mention only one example of its many possibilities and potentialities.

We are also open to an exchange. We have a homemade video of our property. Contact us and we will send it to you.