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Amazon natural region

Amazonía region in southern Colombia comprises the departments of Amazonas, Caquetá, Guainía, Guaviare, Putumayo and Vaupés, and covers an area of 483,000 km2, 35% of Colombia's total territory. The region is mostly covered by tropical rainforest, or jungle, which is a part of the greater Amazon rainforest.

Amazon region

Neotropic

Rainforest, Wetlands

 Colombia

1°N 72°W / 1°N 72°W / 1; -72

Caquetá, Putumayo, Amazon

Tropical

Amazon foothills: bordering the East Andes

Plain: the main watershed of this region

Caquetá River

Plain: location of the famous Cerros de Mavecure

Inírida River

Plain: shared with the Eastern Plains

Guaviare River

Plain: along the southern border

Putumayo River

Serranía de Chiribiquete

Amazon Trapezium: the area of land that actually borders with the

Amazon River

The region is bounded by the East Andes along the western edge and extends to the Venezuelan and Brazilian borders in the east. The northern limit begins with the Guaviare and Vichada Rivers and extends south to the Putumayo and Amazon Rivers.


The Amazon region is divided up into distinct subregions:


Other important rivers include the Vaupés, Apaporis and Yarí.

: the largest part of the Colombian Amazon region centered on the Caquetá, Vaupés, Yarí, and Apaporis Rivers

Caquetá moist forests

: the southwest corner of the Colombian Amazon region, which borders the Andes and includes the headwaters of the Caquetá and Putumayo Rivers

Napo moist forests

: in Colombia this ecoregion is centered on the Putumayo and Amazon Rivers

Solimões-Japurá moist forests

: this ecoregion barely extends into Colombia mainly around the Lower Vaupés and Negro Rivers

Japurá-Solimões-Negro moist forests

: this ecoregion of white sandy forest and swamps barely extends into Colombia around the Negro River in the Department of Vaupés

Campinarana

The tropical rainforest, classified more specifically as a tropical moist broadleaf forest. Within the Colombian Amazon region, there are five moist forest ecoregions:

PNN Alto Fragua Indi-Wasi

PNN Amacayacu

PNN Cahuinarí

PNN Serranía de Chiribiquete

RNN Nukak

PNN La Paya

RNN Puinawai

PNN ío Puré

PNN Serranía de los Churumbelos Auka-Wasi

PNN Tinigua

PNN Yaigojé Apaporis

Amazonas (Colombian department)

Territorial Environmental Information System of the Colombian Amazon

Archived 2020-06-17 at the Wayback Machine

Territorial-Environmental Information System of Colombian Amazon SIAT-AC website