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Bogota - La Candelaria | Reserva Natural Acaime | Popayan, the white city | Silvia | Parque Nacional Natural de Puracé | San Agustin | Desierto de la Tatacoa | Along the road to Bogota | San José Del Guaviare | Cementerio Central Bogota & Arrival in Minca | Minca (Santa Marta) | Minca to Tayrona | Tayrona

Parque Nacional Natural de Puracé

Frailejones are members of the sun flower family but they look like little palm trees with stubby trunks and flowers that resemble daisies. Frailejones grow in paramos, which only exist between 3,000 and 4,800m above sea level. Most of the world’s paramos are in the Colombian Andes and the largest one in the world is the Sumapaz paramo, just 20 Km from Bogota. Scientists believe paramos are some of the fastest evolving eco-systems on the planet and frailejones are among the plants that prove it. These pictures was taken by us in the Puracé National Natural Park at 3200m altitude.
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