The Amarakaeri Communal Reserve (Reserva Comunal Amarakaeri) is a protected area in Peru located in the Madre de Dios Region, Manú Province. It protects parts of the Southwest Amazon moist forests and Peruvian Yungas ecoregions.[1]
Located in the reserve is the "Harakbut Face" that resembles a man's face. It is known by the native Harakbut tribesmen as the Rostro, which means face in their native language.[2] The Harakbut people see the statue as a god. [3] It was discovered in 2014. The native people did speak of it in oral history for generations, but had forgotten where it was located at. Peru has declared it a Cultural Heritage of the Nation.[4]
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- ^ Olson, D. M; E. Dinerstein; et al. (2001). "Terrestrial Ecoregions of the World: A New Map of Life on Earth". BioScience. 51 (11): 933–938. doi:10.1641/0006-3568(2001)051[0933:TEOTWA]2.0.CO;2.
- ^ Valle 1, López 2, Tuyuka 3, Munduruku 4, Raoni 1, Gori-Tumi Echevarría 2, Poani Higino Tenório 3, Jairo Saw 4 (November 2018). "What is anthropogenic? On the cultural aetiology of geo-situated visual imagery in indigenous amazonia". Rock Art Research. 35(2) (November 2018): 123–144 – via ResearchGate.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Hill, David (2015-05-08). "Natural rockface or tribal sculpture? Peru and US's Hunt Oil don't care". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2023-10-09.
- ^ Admin (2022-12-27). "Man-Made Monument or Natural Phenomenon? Sacred Face of the Harakbut Declared Cultural Heritage of Peru". ANIMALS (in Russian). Retrieved 2023-10-09.
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