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Gorgona functioned as a prison from 1959 until 1984 when it was turned into a National Natural Park. The island, noted for its many endemic species and unique ecosystems, was established as Gorgona Island National Park in 1985, in order to preserve its richly varied wildlife of the sub-tropical forest and the coral reefs offshore.
Diversidad de Anfibios y Reptiles del Parque Nacional Gorgona: Herpetofauna de la isla Gorgona en el Pacífico colombiano, Legado de la naturaleza que se atrapó en este refugio de vida. Cali: Laboratorio de Herpetología, Deparamento de Biología, Universidad del Valle. 112 pp. ISBN 978-958-46-0094-3. (Ptychoglossus gorgonae). Harris DM (1994).
Tourists walk in the forest in Gorgona Island, Colombia, on Dec. 2, 2021. Formerly an infamous prison island comparable to Alcatraz in the U.S. and Robben Island in South Africa, today the island ...
Leucostethus siapida is a species of frog in the family Dendrobatidae.It is endemic to Gorgona Island, in Colombia. [1] [2]Scientists saw the frog on Gorgona Island, an island in the Pacific Ocean, 35 km southwest of mainland Colombia.
Scientists with the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) have also recorded another 10 amphibian finds, including a green-brown striped rain frog to be named for Colombia's peace deal: Pristimantis ...
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]
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.
A small island juts out of the Caribbean Sea, its sheer cliffs descending into turquoise waters. Remote and uninhabited, it could be the setting of an untouched paradise. But centuries ago, it was ...