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There are 32 species of primates in peru. All of these species are new world monkeys such as tamarins; Cebidae, capuchin monkeys, woolly monkeys, spider monkeys and, Goeldi’s Monkey. Most of the peruvian monkeys live in the amazon. Monkeys live in groups up in the trees only comming down to drink or move to another tree.[1]

Peruvian Amazon

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The Peruvian amazon covers more the 60 percent of Peru's land.The Peruvian Amazon is traditionally divided into two distinct ecoregions:

The lowland jungle (in Spanish Selva Baja) is also known as Omagua region, walla, anti, Amazonian rain forest, or Amazon basin. This ecoregion is the largest of Peru, standing between 80 and 400 meters above sea level (masl). It has very warm weather with an average temperature of 28 °C, high relative humidity (over 75 percent) and large amounts of rainfall. Its soils are very heterogeneous, but almost all have river origins, and due to high temperatures and high rainfall they are poor soils with few nutrients. It contains long and strong rivers such as the Amazon, Ucayali, Marañón, Putumayo, Yavarí, Napo and Pastaza Tigre.


The highland jungle (in Spanish Selva Alta) is also called Rupa-Rupa region, andean jungle, ceja de selva or ceja de montaña. This ecoregion extends into the eastern foothills of the Andes, between 400 to 1000 masl. Temperatures are warm in the lowlands and cold in higher altitudes. There are many endemic fauna because of the isolation caused by the rugged terrain of this area. [2] The peruvian amazon has lots species and not all of them have been discovered yet.

List of Monkeys

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Goeldi’s Monkey

Tamarin monkeys

Capuchin monkey

Yellow-handed Titi Monkey

Dusky Titi monkey

Masked Titi monkey

marmosets monkey

Cebidae monkey

woolly monkeys

spider monkeys

Wooly spider monkey[3]

  1. ^ http://www.inturkuoda.com/Interesting_articles/Monkeys_of_peru.html
  2. ^ Pulgar Vidal, Javier: Geografía del Perú; Las Ocho Regiones Naturales del Perú. Edit. Universo S.A., Lima 1979. First Edition (his dissertation of 1940): Las ocho regiones naturales del Perú, Boletín del Museo de historia natural „Javier Prado“, n° especial, Lima, 1941, 17, pp. 145-161.
  3. ^ http://www.inturkuoda.com/Interesting_articles/Monkeys_of_peru.html