Selva de Florencia National Natural Park
Selva de Florencia National Park or Parque Nacional Natural Selva de Florencia is a place in Colombia. It is the only piece of Andean rainforest in Colombia's coffee belt, or place full of coffee farms. This park is important because it is in a place where colder places meet warmer places and because it is the only piece of forest left for a long way.[1][2][3][4]
| Selva de Florencia National Park | |
|---|---|
IUCN category II (national park) | |
| Location |  ColombiaCaldas |
| Area | 100.2 km2 (38.69 sq mi) |
| Established | 2003 |
History
changeThis park was made in 2003. Parques Nacionales Naturales de Colombia runs the park. The forest used to cover 9.6% of the Andes area, but now only a tiny bit is left. The forest in the park is very like the old forest that was there before human beings cut it down.[3][2]
Plants
changeThe park has more than 458 different kinds of plants in it. Scientists named two of these plants for the park: Guzmania betancurii and Meriania selvaflorensis.[3]
Animals
changeMany different kinds of animals live in this park. At least twenty-seven threatened species live in the park, critically endangered, endangered, and vulnerable. There are rain frogs, poison frogs, and glass frogs. Here are some:[1][3]
- Andinobates daleswansoni
- Atelopus sonsonensis
- Pristimantis fetosus
- Pristimantis tribulosus
- Pristimantis actinolaimus
- Pristimantis lichenoides
- Pristimantis torrenticola
- Pristimantis veletis
- Nymphargus spilotus
Here are some birds that live in the park:
- Hypopyrrhus pyrohypogaster
- Odontophorus hyperythrus
- Melanerpes pulcher
- Habia cristata
- Habia gutturalis
- Atlapetes flaviceps
- Capito hypoleucus
- Cercomacroides parkeri
- Ortalis colombiana
- Picumnus granadensis
- Scytalopus stilesi
- Chlorochrysa nitidissima
- Capito hypoleucus
- Scytalopus stilesi
- Hypopyrrhus pyrohypogaster
- Atlapetes flaviceps
- Chlorochrysa nitidissima
Here are some animals with fur that live in the park:
- Xenarthra
- Bears
- Armadillos
- Foxes
- Coatis
- Alouatta seniculus
- Aotus lemurinus
- Saguinus leucopus
- Cebus versicolor
- Ateles hybridus
Here are some animals with scales that live in the park:
Place
changeThis reserve is in Colombia's Cordillera Central (Central Mountain Range) in the department of Caldas. It is in two town areas: mostly in Samaná and some in Pensilvania.[5] It is between 850 and 2400 meters above sea level. It is 100.2 square kilometers in size. About 8000 mm of rain and other water falls there every year.[3]
People can drive to the park on the Medllín-Bogotá road, but part of it is not paved. There are also busses.[3]
People call the park Estrella Hídrica del Oriente Caldense or "Water Star of Eastern Caldas."[3]
Problems
changeSometimes, cows walk into the park. The cows step on the plants and make the water dirty. The people who run the park make deals with the cows' owners: The owners will keep the cows out of the park, and the people who run the park made water tanks for the cows to use.[1]
References
change- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "SELVA DE FLORENCIA RISES UP FOR ITS FROGS". WCS Colombia. October 27, 2020. Retrieved July 29, 2024.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Selva de Florencia". Protected Planet. Retrieved July 29, 2024.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 "Parque Nacional Natural Selva de Florencia" (in Spanish). Parques Nacionales Naturales de Colombia. Retrieved July 29, 2024.
- ↑ "National Parks in Colombia". Global National Parks. Retrieved July 29, 2024.
- ↑ Sebas Duarte Marin; Pedro Henrique Dias; Gustavo Arias-Álvarez; Fernando Vargas Salinas (2021). "Advertisement call, tadpole morphology, and other natural history aspects of the threatened poison frog Andinobates daleswansoni (Dendrobatidae)". Journal of Natural History (Figure). 54. doi:10.1080/00222933.2021.1889068. Retrieved July 29, 2004.