SerranÃa de la Macarena
Serranía La Macarena is a national park and a mountain range in Colombia.
This national park is located in the department of Meta and consists of a 130km long mountain chain, which is developed independently by the three Andean Cordilleras and one of the most important places of refuge for the indigenous nature. Founded in 1948, it expands to about 1.13135 million hectares. The best-known feature is the river Caño Cristales, which is characterized by the over the year color changing algae.
In the Macarena to find anteaters, pumas, deer, monkey species, 500 species of birds, 1200 species of insects and 100 different reptiles. 48 species of orchids and 2000 more flowers and plants are native there.
In the adjacent National Park Cordillera de los Picachos lives beyond even the extremely rare mountain tapir. North of this is the Sumapaz National Park, which is home to very large surfaces suitable habitat for Bergtapire.
La Macarena houses some archaeological sites with pre-Columbian pictographs and petroglyphs.
The guerrilla group FARC builds through this National Park is still on a road that crosses the river Caño Cristales, among others. In addition, about 45 km ² are planted with coca. On 4 August 2006, the Colombian state has begun, with the help of aircraft to spray these coca fields with the environmentally hazardous glyphosate. Until then, it had ripped the plants by hand from the ground. The FARC had since launch on 18 January 2006 28 people who were involved in the removal of the plant, was murdered.