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The Mindo Valley is among the most heavily visited tourist locations in Ecuador. Mindo was recently named the Ruta de Cacao by The Ecuadorian Ministerio de Turismo. [1] Nearly 200,000 tourists visit the area annually to enjoy activities such as rafting, tubing, trekking, mountain biking, canyoning, horseback riding, birdwatching, and chocolate ...
It is located near the equator at 1,969 metres' (6,460 ft) altitude, between Mindo parish and Nanegalito. [3] Besides grassland and secondary forest, 10 ha of the area is covered by primary forest on steep inclines, that is protected by the owners. [2]
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Pied puffbird In Mindo, Ecuador Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Piciformes Family: Bucconidae Genus: Notharchus Species: N. tectus Binomial name Notharchus tectus (Boddaert, 1783) Synonyms Bucco tectus The pied puffbird (Notharchus tectus) is a species of bird in the family Bucconidae ...
The Bellavista Cloud Forest Reserve is located entirely within the Pichincha Province of Ecuador, and is itself located on the North-Western slopes of the Andean mountain range, situated at 2000 metres altitude. It is located approximately 52 km from Quito, the central plaza of which is at 2800 metres altitude. [3]
In Ecuador it has regularly been recorded perched on wires in agricultural areas. In elevation it is usually found up to 900 m (3,000 ft) but has been recorded locally in the Mindo, Ecuador region as high as 1,675 m (5,500 ft) and once at 1,550 m (5,100 ft) in Colombia. [4]
A rare species, Mindomys hammondi is known only from Ecuador. [45] Between 1913 and 1980, eight specimens were collected at Mindo, [46] a "tiny agricultural community" [15] at 1,264 m (4,147 ft) elevation in Pichincha Province, northwestern Ecuador.