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    The Pisba National Natural Park is located in northeastern Boyacá, Colombia and covers important ecosystems like paramo, sub-paramo, and high Andean forest. It contains over 35 glacial lakes that are home to diverse flora and fauna, including 32 bird species found nowhere else. The park also follows part of the historic "Liberating Route" pathway taken by Simón Bolívar's troops toward the decisive 1819 Battle of Boyacá, which led to Colombia's independence. Key attractions include abundant birdlife, frailejón plants, and chances to see threatened wildlife such as spectacled bears.

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    The Pisba National Natural Park is located in northeastern Boyacá, Colombia and covers important ecosystems like paramo, sub-paramo, and high Andean forest. It contains over 35 glacial lakes that are home to diverse flora and fauna, including 32 bird species found nowhere else. The park also follows part of the historic "Liberating Route" pathway taken by Simón Bolívar's troops toward the decisive 1819 Battle of Boyacá, which led to Colombia's independence. Key attractions include abundant birdlife, frailejón plants, and chances to see threatened wildlife such as spectacled bears.

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    The Pisba National Natural Park is located in northeastern Boyacá, Colombia and covers important ecosystems like paramo, sub-paramo, and high Andean forest. It contains over 35 glacial lakes that are home to diverse flora and fauna, including 32 bird species found nowhere else. The park also follows part of the historic "Liberating Route" pathway taken by Simón Bolívar's troops toward the decisive 1819 Battle of Boyacá, which led to Colombia's independence. Key attractions include abundant birdlife, frailejón plants, and chances to see threatened wildlife such as spectacled bears.

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    APRIL DE 2021.

    NATIONAL PARK

    Pisba
    PAGE 1

    HISTORY

    HISTORY OF THE PARK


    This site created in 1977 with an
    extension of 45,000 hectares,
    located in the Eastern Cordillera
    department of Boyacá, covers the
    municipalities of Socotá, Socha,
    Tasco, Mongua and Pisba, it has this
    historical-cultural heritage,
    throughout this area passes the
    Liberating Route, which includes
    the journey that the patriotic troops
    made through the Colombian
    territory in search of the country's
    independence, under the command
    of Simón Bolívar and Francisco de
    Paula Santander, these heroes
    crossed from Arauca to Boyacá to
    liberate the battle of the Boyacá
    Bridge that includes the
    independence of Colombia. In
    addition to its historical-cultural
    importance, the liberating route is
    important for National Parks for the
    Values Object of Conservation (VOC)
    that are found along the route,
    being elements of great importance
    for the conservation of the
    biodiversity of the Eastern
    Cordillera. During the journey
    through the liberating route, there
    are ecosystems of Páramo,
    subparamo and High Andean
    forests, strategic for the Protected
    Area.
    PAGE 2

    PISBA NATIONAL NATURAL PARK

    Pisba
    Pisba National
    National Park
    Park
    Pisba National Natural Park has a Important high mountain lakes are
    strategic location because it is the found in the interior of the reserve and
    birthplace of important rivers, are home to a great diversity of fauna
    streams and lakes. It is a (mainly migratory and native birds) and
    representative area of the paramo, flora. These sites are of great
    sub-paramo and high Andean forest importance because they are the
    ecosystems of northeastern Boyacá, sources of the region's water network.
    forming the so-called Tota-Pisba-
    Cocuy Biological Corridor.
    From the historical point of view, Pisba
    It has unique and highly relevant National Natural Park is characterized
    elements that enhance its by the fact that inside the park there is
    importance in the context of the a stretch of the road that gave way to
    conservation of biodiversity in the the liberating troops to the interior of
    Eastern Cordillera, there are the country, where the Battle of Boyacá
    endemic species of flora so Bridge was fought and gave freedom to
    important locally and with wide our country.
    distribution nationwide.
    PAGE 3

    5 attractions of the Pisba


    National Natural Park

    1. Water sources and glacial 4. Laguna del Soldado and


    water lagoons liberating route

    You can visit a total of 35 lagoons of More than the water mirror that the
    pristine waters (mineral and pure) of Laguna del Soldado projects, the
    glacial origin, two water springs to the history behind it will catch your
    Meta and Chicamocha rivers, and the attention, with the so-called
    sources of rivers such as the Pisba. liberation route. On the journey in
    the mountains you will experience
    the path that Bolívar made with his
    2. Unique birds battle troops, the same with which
    he arrives at the encounter of the
    You will find 32 species of birds that Battle of Boyacá and with which he
    can only be observed in this area, and achieves the freedom of the now
    that are in danger of extinction. Among Colombian territory.
    these animals are: the swamp
    cockroach, various kinds of ducks and
    other birds studied by scientists. 5. Ecological corridor

    3. Flora and fauna

    The natural landscapes of this moor,


    one of the most beautiful of its kind, are
    crowded with frailejones of different
    species. The white and yellow of its
    rinds contrasts with the green rugs,
    undoubtedly a luxurious visual
    experience. The park is constituted as
    the home for different mammals of
    immense beauty, among them: tigrillos,
    pumas, spectacled bears and deer.
    PAGE 4

    Fauna and flora


    Flora Fauna

    Regarding the flora, there is a


    great variety of species of In terms of fauna, large
    frailejones, some of them mammals such as puma, tigrillo,
    unique to the Park; The deer and Spectacled Bear can
    vegetation of the Park is be distinguished, the latter
    summarized in 202 species of
    being a value object of
    vascular plants grouped in 116
    conservation of great
    genera and 54 families. The
    species represent 5 families of importance for the Park.
    monocots, 40 of dicots and 9
    groups of seedlings. The most
    diversified families in terms of
    the number of species are:
    Asteraceae with 41 species (21%
    of the total species), followed
    by Rosaceae with 10 species
    (5%), Poaceae with 9 species
    (4.5%), Melastomataceae with 8
    species ( 4%), Bromeliaceae
    with 7 species (3.5%).

    Ecosystems

    Within the area we can


    appreciate several ecosystems,
    the sub-Andean jungle, the
    Andean jungle, the high
    Andean forest, the sub-moor
    and the moor itself are
    represented.
    Credits

    Rosa Cristina Tiria Zaa (11-03)

    Ronald Samir Molinares Sanabria (11-03)

    Ecology and the environment

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