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Historical Outline
Indications of the presence of human beings exist before the conquest and the sprouting of the incaico empire, since have been ancient rest like the petroglyphs in the rivers of Palotoa, Shinkebenia and Urubamba. In the mountain range of Pantiacolla, in the heads of Madre de Dios, also there are petroglyphs and old rest that they attract the archaeologists. Esteem that the first populations of Madre de Dios had to appear thousands ago of years and thinks there that the arahuacos or their predecessors, proto arahuacos, arrived via migration, deriving themselves from many ethnic groups, being related later to the Incas and the Spaniards. Some tribes like the Machiguengas, survive to the present time. What today she knows herself like Madre de Dios, comprised of the old incaico empire, in the well-known region like Antihis. Nevertheless little she is what she knows herself of his formation with exactitude. Inclusively, some chronicles of the Garcilazo Inca of the Fertile valley have been put in fabric of judgment by the contradictory data that exist. Nevertheless, the historians agree that the conquest of this region was difficult for the Incas because they had to face seasoned and expert tribes of the zone that different conquering armies decimated. During the colony expeditions with tragic results for the adventurers were realised who died at the hands of the different tribes. Just in 1567, at the control of 250 men, Juan Alvarez Maldonado it arrives enough near which today she is Madre de Dios. Later, in 1861, colonel Faustino crosses it to Maldonado in his real magnitude arriving at the limit with Brazil. The 26 of December of 1912, the Department of Madre de Dios is created and Maldonado is indicated like capital to Port. In the last years, the height of the ecological tourism and the promotion of the National Park of the Manu and the Natural Reserve of Tambopata-Candamo have turned to this hospitable and colorful city into the visited redoubt more into the zone by the international tourism.