The Abiseo River National Park (PNRA), recognized as a Natural Heritage (1990) and Cultural Heritage (1992) by UNESCO, is one of the two Mixed World Heritage sites for Peru and the third for Latin America.

It is part of the Rio Huayabamba – Abiseo Model Forest (2015) and is the core zone of the Gran Pajaten Biosphere Reserve (2016).

It is one of the last Pleistocene refuges of the Huallaga.

It presents a participatory governance model through public-private partnerships, led by the Ministries of Culture and Environment, involving researchers from UNESCO Chair – University of Genoa, non-governmental organizations and the private sector.

This has achieved the participation of communities and organizations in the protection, conservation and dissemination of the exceptional universal value of the area and its associated landscape from the conservation concessions located in the Amazonian zone and the peasant communities of the highlands in the western zone of the PNRA.