Parque de las Leyendas, Lima

Parque de las Leyendas was founded as the first zoo from Peru in 1964 by Felipe Benavides Barreda. It is located in Distrito de San Miguel, Lima. At the present time besides the zoo the park also hosts a botanical garden, a local museum, and there is also the possibility to visit some huacas (different objects, typically monuments that are revered by the local Native Americans) that can be found around the park.

Peru is a country with a large biological diversity and the park houses an amazing collection of animals and birds of different Latin American species. The animals are distributed according to the natural regions found in Peru: Costa(Coast), Sierra(Highlands) and Selva(Jungle), so one gets to know the natural habitat of the animals and birds found in the zoo. Apart from the native species there is also an area called International Area, where can be found a great diversity of animals from the rest of the world.