Chingaza National Park

Chingaza National Natural Park is located in the Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes, northeast of Bogotá, Colombia in the departments of Cundinamarca and Meta. The elevation in the park, to the east of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, ranges from 800 meters to 4,020 meters, and the temperature ranges from 4 to 21.5 °C.
The animals found in Chingaza include the spectacled bear, deer, tapirs, pumas, Andean condors, jaguars, turkeys, woolly monkeys, nocturnal monkeys, ocelots, deer, and toucans. The large number of endemic species makes the Eastern Ranges one of the most important geographic regions for wildlife in Colombia.
In the vicinity of the Chingaza lake, not less than 383 species of plants have been recorded. It is estimated that the total flora of the park may exceed 2,000 species. There are eight species of peat moss, which can absorb up to 40 times their weight in water. There are also endemic species, such as frailejones, that grow on the páramo and even within forests.
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