Amazon Rescue Center: Experience Manatee Conservation Outside Iquitos City

Experience the noble Amazonian Manatee at the Amazon Rescue Center just outside Iquitos City. Learn about their rehabilitation process and support wildlife conservation.

Duration: 1 hour
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Amazon Rescue Center - Amazon Rescue Center (CREA) is a conservation project that works in partnership with The Dallas World Aquarium Zoo and the Research Institute of the Peruvian Amazon.
    Located 30 minutes from Iquitos downtown by tuk tuk or 1 hour by bus, CREA offers you the possibility to experience the real conservation in the Peruvian…
What's Included
  • Professional guide
  • Entrance fee
What's Not Included
  • Transportation to/from attractions
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off
  • Lunch
  • Food and drinks
Additional Information

We would love to welcome you just beyond the outskirts of Iquitos city to meet the most noble creature of the Amazon - The Amazonian Manatee. Through our educational program, we not only rescue, rehabilitate, and reintroduce endangered wildlife, but also aim to raise consciousness among both tourists and residents. Each tour will take roughly an hour….

Location
Centro de Rescate Amazónico / Amazon Rescue Center
Carretera Iquitos-Nauta
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Coastal66271630949
Oct 11, 2025
Awesome experience - We got to see lots of animals being well taken care of. Even had an English speaking guide to explain the things they are doing for the animals and community. Definitely worth to learn and see what they are doing.
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Kimberly
Apr 17, 2025
A must see - Amazon Animal Rehabilitation Center. - What an amazing facility if your in the area itis a MUST to see. The passion and dedication of the staff and vounlenteers was undeniable. I was in awe watching baby manatee be bottle feed. And impressed with the process and length of time it takes to release a manatee, parrot, turtle or any other animal they had in their facility back into there natural habit. In this case would be a National Park.
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Dianassan
Feb 16, 2025
Family Experience - My children loved the whole tour.. carry water and cap... my 2-year-old girl enjoyed the whole tour, loved the animals and my 10-year-old son threw himself off the zip line
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Gersonl510
Aug 5, 2024
Go - Such a good and interesting place to visit while in Iquitos. Very informative and accessible outside Iquitos. Your visit supports the project. It is better if you go with a tour guide so you can also visit other places on the way.
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Alberty590
Jul 1, 2024
Great Learning Experience - After our Amazon River cruise on the way back to Iquitos, the tour stopped by the Manatee Rescue Center. The center works on rehabilitating manatees and other Amazonian animals back to the wild. For animals that cannot be rehabilitated, the center will take care of them or release them to the preserve nearby. Our guide there was very warm and polite to us. He was informative and told us how the center worked and how it was founded. He is very dedicated to preserving the rainforest and hopes that we learn how to do our part.
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Killvito40
Feb 5, 2024
White sand - It was nice to take a walk through part of the Amazon and learn about the program to save Manatees. I also liked seeing the white sandy piece of jungle.
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Antymelm
Aug 6, 2023
Visit to CREA - Beautiful place and seeing that the rescued animals are recovering. The guide was good. He told us the story of the animals and plants they handle. #SaveTheManaties #JusticeForJorgito
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Latabernarestaurant
Apr 17, 2023
Hurried but beautiful - The conservation and education work is giant, congratulations! Beautiful sculptures and paths. Very little time to see the animals. I'm just suggesting we can go through it slower, feel like we ran to follow the guides. It also said it closed at 6pm but when we finished the tour at 4pm there was no one to buy souveniers. I wanted to buy them there to help the organization, and there were very few things and no one to sell them to us.
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819lavig
Oct 3, 2025
Nice, not over, too far from the center. - The tour was interesting, lots of information. There's another shorter tour in the forest. It's not clear why they pay more. Overall nice, quite away from the city 45 minutes by taxi.
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Nadja
Aug 23, 2024
NOT RECOMMENDED if one does NOT want to support animal cruelty!!!! - This “Rescue Center” is nothing more than a zoo where the animals are displayed. The animals , e.g. monkeys, agutis, parrots, sloths, capibaras, etc. are housed in enclosures and cages that are too small. The only positive thing about it is that they look very well maintained, yet they are mini prisons! Right away, a baby manatee is shown doing their rounds permanently in a pool about 3 meters in diameter. When I started asking the staff questions, e.g. why the animals are housed in such small cages, I was immediately interrupted loudly and it became clear very quickly that unpleasant questions are not welcome. Right at the beginning of the tour we were also advised that you cannot touch the animals, which I also very much support. In the next sentence, however, it was immediately stated that one may gladly touch and feed the animals if one works here as a volunteer. But it's been going on here for a few hours. Which I would also call very questionable!
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1 - Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).