Peru

Amazon basin · 51 protected areas · 3,261 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: 51, 183,131 km² by GIS area (overlapping designations are summed, not dissolved)
  • Indigenous territories in the basin: 3,261, 161,696 km² by GIS area
  • Distinct illegal-mining scars centred inside any of its 224 page areas: 20

As of 2026-09-12. Species-at-risk counts and live alert/fire totals are on the dashboard's country card.

Under the most pressure

Protected areas (51)

Indigenous territories with a page (173 largest of 3,261)

See it live

Defended by people in Peru

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Elsewhere