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The site was identified as important in 2008 because it was regularly supporting significant populations of the species listed below, meeting ('triggering') IBA criteria.

Populations meeting IBA criteria ('trigger species') at the site:

Species	Red List1	Season	Year(s)	Size	IBA criteria
Helmeted Curassow Pauxi pauxi	VU	resident	2008	< 50 individuals	A1, A2
Apolinar's Wren Cistothorus apolinari	EN	resident	2008	50-100 individuals	A1, A2

1. The current IUCN Red List category. The category at the time of the IBA criteria assessment (2008) may differ.

Year	Protected Area	Designation	% overlap with IBA
1977	El Cocuy	Parque Nacional Natural	100
1986	Cuenca del Rio Tame	Reservas Forestales Protectoras Nacionales	<1

Habitat1	Habitat detail	% of IBA
Forest	Flooded tropical evergreen forest, Gallery (or Riparian) forest, Montane broadleaf evergreen forest, Polylepis woodland, Second-growth or disturbed forest	69
Shrubland	Scrub, Semihumid/humid montane scrub	15
Grassland	Edaphic grassland, Second-growth or grazed grasslands	8
Artificial/Terrestrial	Improved pasture land	6
Other		1
Wetlands (inland)	Freshwater marshes/swamps	1

1. IUCN Habitat classification.

En el territorio del Parque se encuentran representados tres grupos culturales diferentes, los Uwa, los llaneros quienes están asentados sobre las estribaciones de la cordillera, pie de monte y las sabanas, y la cultura campesina altoandina en la vertiente occidental de la cordillera.

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Parque Nacional Natural El Cocuy (Colombia). Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/parque-nacional-natural-el-cocuy-iba-colombia on 23/11/2024.