Trips to Colombia

TRIPS TO COLOMBIA: SIERRA NEVADA OF SANTA MARTA

Extension: 383,000 hectares.

Year of creation: 1964.

Location: Located between the departments of Magdalena, Guajira and Cesar in jurisdiction of the Bog municipalities, San Juan of Cesar, Foundation, Aracataca, Dibulla, Mingueo, near Santa Marta, Riohacha and Valledupar.

Temperature: Of 0 to 27º C.

Access roads:
From Santa Marta to the Ivory palm in car; of there on foot or in mule approximately three days. Also by Santa Marta it is possible to be arrived at the station from San Lorenzo and the Archaeological Park Teyuna. Another route is the one that leads to Valledupar; this one is the main line to go to the snowed ones, although they only can be visited with the previous consent of the indigenous communities.

Ecosystems:
Mountainous desert, forests and forests.

Fauna:
It is conformed by species like the moose, the deer of desert, the squirrel, the otter and birds like the condor, the paujil and the redfish of mount.

Vegetation:
Its vegetation generally is humid, emphasizes the humid forest of floor warm and temperate as well as the humid forest, desert and superdesert.

Climate:
Cold-Temper - Warm

Present communities in the area:
The Mountain range is the cradle of the Tayrona, the most monumental and singular indigenous civilization of the country. There they live around 30,000 natives of the ethnic groups Kogui, Arhuaco and Wiwa (Arsarios).

Objectives of conservation of the area:
To conserve natural areas little taken part for the accomplishment of scientific researches, recreational activities and environmental education.
To preserve producing spaces of environmental goods and services.
To protect to the existing indigenous communities in the region, as well as the ecosystems of the Sierra Nevada that include practically all the existing types in the country.

Eco-tourism:
The Natural National Park serves of eco-tourism; it at the moment tells on infrastructure for lodging and this abierto to the public.
The area counts on lodging in the sector of San Lorenzo, two cabins with shared bath.

Sites of interest:
It is the highest mountain of the world to borders of the sea and has the two higher mountains of Colombia, the Tips Columbus and Bolivar.

Recommendations:
The visitor must be vaccinated against the yellow fever, as minimum 10 days before the trip, and will have to present/display the effective membership card to the entrance of the Protected area. This service gives institutions among others: The Colombian Red Cross and the Department of Harbor Health of the Airport gilded the Soft International in Bogota.

To take to medicine kit of first aid and medecines disinfectants.
It avoids to take injurious elements that attempt against the biodiversity of the Park such as aerosols, animal, harpoons, firearms. One does not allow to the harvesting of vegetal material and/or animal.