Machu Picchu Historic Sanctuary

Name: Machu Picchu Historic Sanctuary
Address: Peru

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Machu Picchu Historic Sanctuary, Peru — Photo: Josefito123, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Boundary from OpenStreetMap, about 373 km². The counts below cover the park and roughly 16 km around it.

Recorded in and around Machu Picchu Historic Sanctuary

Species: 523
Grid cells: 1,489
Records: 357,543

Birds 424
Insects 82
Reptiles 8
Amphibians 5
Mammals 4

Species with at least one recorded territory whose grid cell centres fall in or near Machu Picchu Historic Sanctuary. 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. Chances for the species with a written atlas page follow below.

Chances for more species

Species with a written atlas page and records in and around Machu Picchu Historic Sanctuary, most recorded first. Each shows how likely an encounter is here, in which months it has been recorded, and the records behind it.

The number beside each name is its records here.

Most recorded here

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