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The country hosts two biodiversity hotspots: 1 - Tropical Andes 5 - Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena Jaguar in Jaime Duque Zoo, Tocancipá. The biodiversity of Colombia is the variety of indigenous organisms in the country with the second-highest biodiversity in the world. [1] As of 2021, around 63,000 species are registered in Colombia, of which 14% ...
Environmentally, Colombia is a mega-diverse country from its natural land terrain to its biological wildlife. [1] Its biodiversity is a result of its geographical location and elevation. [2] It is the fourth largest South American country and only country in South America to have coasts on the Pacific and Caribbean Sea. [3]
Colombia has the largest number of endemic species (species that are not found naturally anywhere else) worldwide. About 10% of the species in the world live in Colombia. [ 2 ] Some determinant factors in the distribution range of the species are the weather conditions, temperature , humidity and sunlight availability.
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.
The following is a list of ecoregions in Colombia defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). Colombia is considered one of the world's 'megadiverse' countries, and is home to one in ten of the world's plant and animal species. It is ranked first in bird and orchid species diversity, and second in plants, butterflies, freshwater fishes and ...
SINAP was established after Colombia signed the Convention on Biological Diversity through Law 165 of 1994, [1] [2] and has been the primary activity of the Colombian Government regarding the conservation of biodiversity. [3] The areas of the Park System supply 25 million people with water. [3]
Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena is a biodiversity hotspot, which includes the tropical moist forests and tropical dry forests of the Pacific coast of South America and the Galapagos Islands. The region extends from easternmost Panama to the lower Magdalena Valley of Colombia, and along the Pacific coast of Colombia and Ecuador to the northwestern ...
Megadiversity means exhibiting great biodiversity. The main criterion for megadiverse countries is endemism at the level of species, genera and families. A megadiverse country must have at least 5,000 species of endemic plants and must border marine ecosystems.