The National Institute of Natural Resources (INRENA), a public agency of the Agriculture Ministry created by D.L. N9 26902, has as its primary objective the management and rational use of the renewable natural resources and their ecological surroundings to achieve sustainable development.
The enactment of D.S. N2 01 0-90-AG created the National System of Natural Areas Protected by the State (SINANPE) as a national necessity to protect and develop areas and representative spaces of the natural heritage of Peru, in order to increase their contribution to the nation's development.
Within this framework the Huascaran National Park Recreation and Tourism Plan has been approved by R.J. No 056-95-INRENA as a planning and orientation instrument for tourist and recreation activities in this important protected natural are.
This document has been elaborated under the Specific Inter-Institutional Agreement between the National Institute of Natural Resources (INRENA) and The Mountain Institute of the United States of America, with the financial support of the Royal Embassy of the Netherlands and of USAID in accordance with the general policy guidelines of the government oriented toward promoting tourism in the country.
