Flamingos Fauna and Flora Sanctuary
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Flamingos Fauna and Flora Sanctuary has been a natural park since 1977. It is located in the Colombia
n Caribbean Region
and the Guajira Peninsula
and part of the department
of La Guajira
.
The sanctuary is between the corregimiento
of Camarones and the Tapias river, surrounded by marshes mainly the Manzanillo, Laguna Grande, Ciénaga del Navío Quebrado and Tocoromanes marshes. Its main attraction is the Caribbean flamingo
es, and their nests that can reach 60 cm of height.
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...
n Caribbean Region
Caribbean Region
The Caribbean Region or Caribbean Coast Region is a natural region of Colombia mainly composed of eight Departments located contiguous to the Caribbean. The area covers a total land area of including the San Andres Island Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina in the Caribbean...
and the Guajira Peninsula
Guajira Peninsula
Guajira Peninsula , is a peninsula in northern Colombia and northwestern Venezuela in the Caribbean Sea...
and part of the department
Departments of Colombia
Colombia is an unitary republic formed by thirty-two departments and a Capital District . Each department has a Governor and a Department Assembly , elected by popular vote for a four-year period. The governor cannot be re-elected in consecutive periods...
of La Guajira
Department of La Guajira
La Guajira is a department of Colombia. It occupies most of its namesake peninsula, the Guajira Peninsula in the northeast region of the country, facing the Caribbean Sea and Venezuela in the northern most part of South America...
.
The sanctuary is between the corregimiento
Corregimiento
Corregimiento is a term used in Colombia to define a subdivision of Colombian departments. According to the Colombian Constitution of 1991 and Decree 2274 of October 4, 1991, Corregimiento is an internal part of a Department or province, which includes a population core...
of Camarones and the Tapias river, surrounded by marshes mainly the Manzanillo, Laguna Grande, Ciénaga del Navío Quebrado and Tocoromanes marshes. Its main attraction is the Caribbean flamingo
Caribbean Flamingo
The American Flamingo is a large species of flamingo closely related to the Greater Flamingo and Chilean Flamingo. It was formerly considered conspecific with the Greater Flamingo, but that treatment is now widely viewed as incorrect due to a lack of evidence...
es, and their nests that can reach 60 cm of height.