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White-throated toucan (Ramphastos tucanus) inhabits the Amazon Basin Channel-billed toucan (Ramphastos vitellinus) Emerald toucanet (Aulacorhynchus prasinus) Northern helmeted curassow (Pauxi pauxi) lives in the Cordillera Oriental, Colombia mountain range Andean cock-of-the-rock is distributed in Andean cloud forests Oilbirds can be seen in Cueva de los Guacharos National Park Male rufous ...
Colombia is one of seventeen megadiverse countries in the world. [7] The country in northwestern South America contains 311 types of coastal and continental ecosystems. [1] As of the beginning of 2021, a total of between 63,000 and 71,000 species are registered in the country, [8] [5] with 8803 endemic species, representing near the 14% of the total registered species. [6]
The Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation (Portuguese: Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade, ICMBio) is the Brazilian Ministry of the Environment's administrative arm. [1] It is named after the environmental activist Chico Mendes.
Colombia, [b] officially the Republic of Colombia, [c] is a country primarily located in South America with insular regions in North America.The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuela to the east and northeast, Brazil to the southeast, Peru and Ecuador to the south and southwest, the Pacific Ocean to the west, and Panama to the northwest.
Bancolombia S.A. (also known as Grupo Bancolombia; formerly: Banco de Colombia) is a full-service financial institution that provides financial products and services in Colombia, Panama, El Salvador, Puerto Rico, the Cayman Islands, Peru and Guatemala. Bancolombia is one of the six banking-related companies of the COLCAP index. The Bank ...
The Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (CONABIO; English: National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity) is a permanent inter-ministerial commission of the Federal Mexican government, created in 1992.
The Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INBio) is the national institute for biodiversity and conservation in Costa Rica. Created at the end of the 1980s, and despite having national status, it is a privately run institution that works closely with various government agencies, universities, business sector and other public and private entities ...
The three main lakes are called "Lago de Azufre" (discovered in 1916), "La Nevera" and "El Lago de las Damas". [4] Some of the lakes also have openings on the outside. [ 5 ] A staircase carved into the rock gives access to the first cave while a boat takes visitors across the second lake to give access to a fourth lake called "Los Zaramagullones".