17/03/2021

PERU


PERU / PERÚ.

America UPAEP issue.
Manglares de Tumbes National Sanctuary (mangrove swamp).
First stamp in a set of 2, issued on 23.12.1991 [stamp dated 1990].
Face value: 500,000 (0.50 milion) Peruvian inti.
Printing: Offset lithography.

Catalogues
- Michel No. 1454.
- Scott No. 1013.
- StampWorld No. 1439.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 1766.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 958.

Manglares de Tumbes National Sanctuary is a protected natural area of the region of Tumbes, northwestern Peru, located next to the mouth of the Zarumilla River, on the Pacific Ocean coast, on the border with Ecuador. It covers an area of 29.72 km2 (11.47 sq mi) and was created on March 2, 1988 to protect the largest mangrove forest in Peru. In 2016 UNESCO included it as a Core Zone of the Amotapes-Manglares Northwest Biosphere Reserve.

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