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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]
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 ...
Hammen, Thomas van der (2003), La conservación de la biodiversidad: hacia una estructura ecológica de soporte de la nación colombiana [The conservation of the biodiversity: towards an ecological structure supported by the Colombian nation] (PDF) (in Spanish), Universidad Nacional de Colombia, pp. 286–291
East Andes (Norte de Santander), 1400–2000 m [21] Anolis lamari-East slope of Central Andes: Endemic: Anolis latifrons-Pacific lowlands, to 600 m: Anolis limon [22]-Northwest Colombia (Chocó) Anolis maculigula: Rueda's Anole: Northwest Colombia (Antioquia & Chocó), to 850 m: Endemic; Vulnerable [23] Anolis megalopithecus: Ruida's Anole
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.
Rivers such as Bogotá, Cali, Combeima, Otún, Medellín, de Oro, Pamplonita, and Pasto which are one of the important water resources of Colombia are highly contaminated due to direct discharge of untreated effluents, pathogens and various other toxic substances primarily discharged by the agricultural sector, industrial sector and the mining ...
The national flower of Colombia is the orchid Cattleya trianae which was named after the Colombian naturalist José Jerónimo Triana.The orchid was selected by botanist Emilio Robledo, in representation of the Colombian Academy of History to determine the most representative flowering plant of Colombia.
Brigitte Baptiste (born Luis Guillermo Baptiste [1] October 23, 1963) is a Colombian cultural landscape ecologist and an expert on environmental issues and biodiversity in Colombia.