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La Florida Humedal La Florida
Parque Metropolitano La Florida
Location at the edge of Bogotá
Location	Funza, Cundinamarca  Colombia
Coordinates	4°43′45.8″N 74°09′01.7″W / 4.729389°N 74.150472°W / 4.729389; -74.150472
Area	26 ha (64 acres)
Elevation	2,542 m (8,340 ft)
Administrator	EAAB - ESP
Website	Humedal La Florida

La Florida is a wetland and park known as the Parque Metropolitano La Florida. La Florida is located across the Bogotá River from Jaboque wetland in the municipality Funza, Cundinamarca, close to Cota. La Florida does not belong to the protected wetlands of Bogotá.

Flora and fauna

Birds

In La Florida, 90 species of birds have been registered, of which 13 endemic, uniquely in this wetland:

Name	Species	Image
green heron	Butorides virescens
paramo seedeater	Catamenia homochroa
ringed kingfisher	Megaceryle torquata
fulvous whistling duck	Dendrocygna bicolor
swallow-tailed kite	Elanoides forficatus
little blue heron	Florida caerulea
common snipe	Gallinago gallinago
laughing gull	Larus atricilla
brown-chested martin	Phaeoprogne tapera frusca
Neotropic cormorant	Phalacrocorax olivaceus
yellow-faced grassquit	Tiaris olivacea
rufescent tiger heron	Tigrisoma lineatum
silvery-throated spinetail	Synallaxis subpudica

Insects

The dragonfly species Ischnura cruzi has been registered in La Florida, as well as in La Conejera and Santa María del Lago.

See also

• Biodiversity of Colombia, Bogotá savanna, Thomas van der Hammen Natural Reserve
• Wetlands of Bogotá

References

1. (in Spanish) Humedal La Florida website
2. Andrade & Benitez, s.a., p.8
3. Andrade & Benitez, s.a., p.11
4. Bota-Sierra, C.; Palacino, F.; Rache, L. (2016). "Ischnura cruzi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T49254523A49255309. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T49254523A49255309.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.

Bibliography

• Andrade L., Martha Esperanza; Benitez Castañeda, Henry, Los Humedales de la Sabana de Bogotá: Área Importante para la Conservación de las Aves de Colombia y el Mundo (PDF), AICAS, pp. 1–38, retrieved 2017-03-03

Further reading

• Moreno, Vanesa; García, Juan Francisco; Villalba, Juan Carlos, Descripción general de los humedales de Bogotá D.C. (PDF), Sociedad Geográfica de Colombia, pp. 1–28, retrieved 2017-03-03

External links

• (in Spanish) Fundación Humedales de Bogotá
• (in Spanish) Conozca los 15 humedales de Bogotá - El Tiempo

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