Parque Nacional Natural Sumapaz
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| Location: | Cundinamarca , Colombia | ||
| Next city: | Bogotá | ||
| Surface: | 1421.12 km² | ||
| Founding: | June 1977 | ||
| Address: | www.parquesnacionales.gov.co | ||
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The Parque Nacional Natural Sumapaz is a Colombian natural park founded in 1977 . It extends over the three departments of Cundinamarca , Huila and Meta as well as the Sumapaz district of Bogotá in the eastern cordillera of the Andes on an area of 154,000 hectares , making it the largest páramo in the world. Its height profile ranges from 1500 m to a height of 4360 m above sea level. The temperatures are between 2 and 19 ° C. As in the Parque Nacional Natural Chingaza, representatives of the Espeletia genus shape the landscape . In addition to the fauna and flora to be protected , the Resolución ejecutiva No. 153 del 6 de junio de 1977 , with which the park was defined, also the protection of archaeological finds from the time before the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors .
Hydrography
The Parque Nacional Natural Sumapaz has countless lagunas that feed from different rivers. The lagoons Negra, Larga, Casa Blanca, La Balsa, Las Cáquezas, El Gallo, El Brisol, El Cobre, La Mochila and La Conejera are formed from the waters of the Río Blanco , which later joins the Río Los Medios, which also runs in the area feeds the Río Meta . The Río Sumapaz , which has the same name as the park and flows into the Río Magdalena , fills the lagoons Larga, Negra, Currucuyes, Andabobos, Le Hermosura and Guadalupe. In addition to the Río Sumapaz, the Río Cabrera , which feeds the lagoons La Panela and La Triple Yegua, and the Río Tunjuelo (lagoons: Las Lajas and La Virginia) ultimately flow into the Río Magdalena. However, the Río Tunjuelo first unites with the Río Bogotá . As the third major river in Colombia, the Río Guaviare is fed by the Río Ariari (lagoons: El Cajón, El Diamante, La Esmeralda, de Alsacio, Santa Teresa and La Pena) and the Río Guayabero .
fauna and Flora
In addition to the representatives of the genus Espeletia , the flora is also characterized by the 40 to 50 cm high Paspalum . In addition to these, there are countless other types of plants. For example, around the Chisacá lagoon alone there are 55 representatives of the Asteraceae , 20 Poaceae species, 15 Apiaceae species, 14 Rosaceae species and twelve Scrophulariaceae species. In addition to many species of frogs , reptiles and birds , the fauna also includes, for example, the puma and the tigrillo .
The park is home to the largest protected habitats of the rare mountain tapirs of Colombia. The area suitable for mountain tapirs in the park is about 600 square kilometers.
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- ↑ DJ Lizcano, V. Pizarro, J. Cavelier and J. Carmona: Geographic distribution and population size of the mountain tapir ( Tapirus pinchaque ) in Colombia . Journal of Biogeography, 29, 7-15
Literature and further information
- Parque Nacional Natural Sumapaz ( Spanish ) Retrieved August 15, 2017.
- Resolución ejecutiva No. 153 del 6 de junio de 1977 ( Spanish , PDF) Retrieved August 15, 2017.
- Paola Pedraza-Peñalosa, Julio Betancur Betancur, Pilar Franco-Rosselli: Chisacá, un recorrido por los páramos andinos . 2nd Edition. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Bogotá 2005, ISBN 978-958-8151-33-5 (Spanish, 340 pp., [1] [accessed on August 15, 2017]).