Huascarán National Park

Name: Huascarán National Park
Address: Peru

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Huascarán National Park, Peru — Photo: PercyDextre, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Boundary from OpenStreetMap, about 3,396 km². The counts below cover the park and roughly 16 km around it.

Recorded in and around Huascarán National Park

Species: 234
Grid cells: 969
Records: 43,843

Birds 186
Insects 28
Amphibians 8
Reptiles 7
Mammals 5

Species with at least one recorded territory whose grid cell centres fall in or near Huascarán National Park. Cells are up to 25 km across, so an animal counted here may have been recorded just outside the boundary. This is not a park checklist, and the counts follow where people look as much as what lives there.

Likely encounters

None of the species with a full field-guide entry has records here yet. The most recorded species below come from the same records.

Most recorded here

The species with the most open occurrence records in and around Huascarán National Park, among those a photograph exists for. Most recorded is not most numerous: it rewards animals that are common, conspicuous and live where people go.