The Payara: "Hydroclycus Scomberoides"

also called peixe-cachorro,dog fish,

saber toothed dogfish, tiger fish, guapeta.

Only a few minutes by plane from Cuzco! This is one of the most pristine and unspoiled areas in the Amazon rainforest, housing more species of animals than any other place on earth. Officially created in 1990, the Tambopata - Candamo Reserved Zone is located east and south of Puerto Maldonado. It comprises 1.5 million hectares (3.5 millions acres) of the Madre de Dios and Puno regions. The Tambopata Reserve has been the subject of numerous TV documentaries

Like Manu National Park, the reserved zone protects a diversity of landscapes and wildlife, including pristine oxbow lakes with herons, kingfishers, caimans and giant otters, spectacular waterfalls with swimming holes, amazing clay licks ("collpas") visited by hundreds of macaws, monkeys and tapirs, swamps filled with palm trees in which colonies of birds nest, and rivers with sandy, white beaches for camping. All these wonders attract tourists, scientists and wildlife photographers.

"Like all the animals in this National  Reserve, fishes are wild and ferocious, big and strong. Payara is one of them. We invite you to enjoy with us the exciting bites, hard fighting & high jumping of this ferocious gamefish in one of the biggest rainforest of the world.

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New Payara Fishing Destination!