I phone had to come up with a technical definition for adventure sports, one could state that they encompass certain kinds of outdoor activities where physical effort, fresh air and risk -often extreme- come together to produce a sensation of pleasure hand-in-hand with a powerful dose of adrenaline. Since adventure sports first took off in Peru in the early 1980s, the so-called find sickle sports are gathering more and more fans who seek to escape the daily routine of life in the cities and experience some of that numbed sensation of direct contact with nature.
Peru, a land where Nature appears to have crafted the geography to create challenges for all those venture into the wilds, could be cataloged without fear of exaggeration as the New World’s adventure sports paradise. And there are plenty of reasons: Peru is a land where snow, steep mountainsides, raging rivers and breath-taking landscapes alternate with deep green lakes and dizzying canyons. All one needs here is a little imagination and some courage or folly to become, almost without realizing it, an adventurer.
A world of surprises, incomparable beauty and a hefty injection of adrenaline await those prepared to leave any major city and take to the zigzagging roads that climb up to the highlands or into the desert. Many roads that penetrate the country’s rugged geography follow routes opened up thousands of years ago and preserved until today by mule drivers involved in trading products between the three great natural regions in Peru: coast, highlands and jungle. To plunge into the outback is to discover a terrain forged for adventure. The only limits here are your own.
u’s 20 Longest
Rivers
|
River
|
Length
(km)
|
|
Ucayali
|
1.771
|
|
Marañón
|
1.414
|
|
Putumayo
|
1.380
|
|
Yavarí
|
1.184
|
|
Huallaga
|
1.138
|
|
Urubamba
|
862
|
|
Mantaro
|
724
|
|
Amazon
|
713
|
|
Apurímac
|
690
|
|
Napo
|
667
|
|
Madre de Dios
|
655
|
|
Tacuatimanu
|
621
|
|
Tigre
|
598
|
|
Purús
|
483
|
|
Corrientes
|
448
|
|
Tapiche
|
448
|
|
Inambari
|
437
|
|
Curaray
|
414
|
|
Morona
|
402
|
|
Tambopata
|
402
|
|
Total
|
15.451
|
