Colombia can be divided into 5 large regions.
ANDES, the home of the Condor
The Colombian Andes comprises high mountain ecosystems that include glaciers at 5.000 masl, the famous páramos, pygmy forests, cloud forests, high plains with inter-Andean valleys and the most dense forest in the Andean foothills. The three mountain ranges generate a series of microclimates that produce dry and wet areas with a very diverse flora and fauna.
PACIFIC, the most biodiverse in the world
Another area of great interest in Colombia is the Biogeographic region of the Chocó that stretches from the borders with Panama all the way to Ecuador and at its eastern limits descends from the slopes of the Andes Mountains to the Pacific coast. This is one of the wettest regions on earth with 9.000mm of rainfall per year and its rainforest is also considered as the most exuberant and impenetrable. Experts affirm that this area has the highest diversity per square kilometer on the planet. Each year the Pacific coast of Colombia is visited by different species of whales.
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CARIBBEAN, reverie beaches
The peninsula of La Guajira in Colombia’s northeast bordering Venezuela on the Caribbean cost is a true desert ecosystem, where it is amazing to see the incredible adaptations of tropical species to extreme conditions. But, a small mountain is enough to trap moisture in the air and create a unique oasis like the one found at the Serranía de Macuira National Park. A little bit further south, is the highest coastal mountain range in the world, the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (5.775 masl). This mountain generates all altitudinal ranges that attract a high diversity of birds.
PLAINS, the great savanna
To the east lay the Great Plains region which possess the same characteristics of the savannas of African and where the Amazonian species have adapted to the open habitats. There are diverse landscapes from huge river flood plains areas to gallery forests and small-forested hills with diverse life forms.
AMAZON, lungs of the world
And finally, the southern region of Colombia has the magical Amazon rainforest, an unexplored and pristine area full of life in all of its forms and colors, with rivers where freshwater dolphins and manatees generate myths and legends from its aboriginal dwellers. Here the Tepuis, which are the result of the Guiana shield, create landscape that are truly a lost world.