Scientific name: Llama glama

Habitat: Highland, Mountain areas in dry and stony.

Features: This species can be described as a camelid that belongs to the order of tylopods.

In fact the flame, like the Alpaca is an animal created by human hands. More than 4500 years ago that home and in nature is not known in the wild. The big question is if it comes from its own species or race is a Guanaco?

The Flame is the largest of the camelids, measured from 150 to 190 cm. tall, with a maximum weight of 140 pounds, his head is small relative to the body, which has slender.

It is tamed and used as pack animals and for meat. It is the most common and strongest of the Andean camelids generally used as pack animal, the average weight that can carry is about 40 kg on long trips, and up to 60 Kg

It is the least selective in their feeding, grazing meadows of straw.

The herd has a gregarious and territorial, there always exists a dominant male, who controls the other. Gestation lasts 348 days or so. The young males are expelled the herd per year of age.

In general there are two types of flames, according to the diameter of the fiber, those between 32 and 35 lenses, called Q'ara or peeled (the largest) and ch'akus or woolly, with finer fiber of 28 micron. Their wool, the thickest of the Camels, gives about 4 kg with shearing every 2 years.