The Sandoval Lake Lodge is the only lodge in the Tambopata National Reserve and is a partnership with the 40 member community that lives on the lake margin.

The local community receives over 49% of the net profit from the lodge, and community members also earn salaries as lodge employees. Sandoval Lake Lodge had 3,200 tourists in 2003, making it one of the top three lodges in Tambopata.

Additionally, it contributed $20 per tourist to the Tambopata National Reserve, or over $60,000 in 2003. This total represents 60% of the visitor fees paid to the Tambopata Reserve, more than the combined total of the other 15 lodges of the region. Lodge employees and the lake community patrol and protect the lake constantly, day and night.

The lodge, which has 25 double-occupancy rooms with electricity, overhead fans, hot water showers, and flush toilets, overlooks the largest and most attractive of the four oxbow lakes of the Tambopata National Reserve/Bahuaja-Sonene National Park.

The primary attractions for visitors are the Giant Otters, six species of monkeys, Hoatzins, Agami Herons, other water birds, the largest concentration of Red-bellied Macaws in southeastern Peru, three species of large macaws, and the scenery of the largest lakeside Mauritia palm swamp in southeastern Peru.