Peru

Amazon basin · 50 protected areas · 7,612 Indigenous territories

The numbers

  • Forest cover, whole country: 56.1% of land (2023, World Bank — national, not basin-only)
  • Land area, whole country: 1,280,000 km² (2023)
  • Population, whole country: 34,576,665 (2025)
  • Protected areas in the basin: 50, 176,182 km² by GIS area (overlapping designations are summed, not dissolved)
  • Indigenous territories in the basin: 7,612, 511,884 km² by GIS area
  • Distinct illegal-mining scars centred inside any of its 323 page areas: 65

As of 2026-08-23. Species-at-risk counts and live alert/fire totals are on the dashboard's country card.

Under the most pressure

Protected areas (50)

Indigenous territories with a page (273 largest of 7,612)

See it live

Elsewhere