Where the Water is Born - Peaceful Drive Through the Colombian Andes

Join us on a peaceful drive in the high mountains of the Colombian Andes. Let your spirit fly upon the clouds, up in Chingaza, where the water is born!

The Chingaza “paramo,” located in the nature park of the same name in the Colombian Andes, is a refuge for fauna and flora that provides water to Bogota and that, environmentalists say, could be in danger if it becomes over-exploited.

The Chingaza Park is surrounded by the Eastern Andes mountain chain, some 99 kilometers (61 miles) from Bogota at an altitude of up to 4,020 meters (13,200 feet) above sea level, making this preserve one of the region’s main ecotourism attractions

The paramo ecosystem – a high-altitude wet tundra that covers 76,000 hectares (about 190,000 acres) – includes the towns of Fomeque, Guasca, La Calera, Choachi, Gachala, Junin and Medina, all in Cundinamarca province, as well as Restrepo, Cumaral, El Calvario and San Juanito in central Meta province.

Among the animals living in the Andean forest and the Chingaza Park “paramo” are Tremarctos ornatus – the “spectacled bear” – along with deer, puma and leopard.

A Páramo is a type of alpine tundra ecosystems located in the Andes Mountain Range, South America. Some ecologists describe the páramo broadly as "all high, tropical, montane vegetation above the continuous timberline". A narrower term classifies the páramo according to its regional placement in the northern Andes of South America and adjacent southern Central America.

The páramo is the ecosystem of the regions above the continuous forest line, yet below the permanent snowline. It is a "Neotropical high mountain biome with a vegetation composed mainly of giant rosette plants, shrubs and grasses". According to scientists, páramos may be evolutionary hot spots and among the fastest evolving regions on Earth.

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Dream of Peace

Dream of peace, although it may elude you,
Vain though it seems in your darkest hour!
Believe that harmony may soon ensue,
That by planting a seed it might flower.
Vanquished be the wicked will of sorrow
Leaving streaks of weeping upon your face.
Sleep soundly, in the hope of tomorrow,
In the serenity of earnest grace.
Discredit not the power of desire
That turns love to hate, and makes brothers clash,
Or easily extinguishes the fire
Which otherwise burns all purpose to ash.
A vision might all of our sins redeem.
Reality is wrought by what we dream.

~ Daniel F Mitchell

http://www.gardenofpoetry.com

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This video footage comes from Chingaza National Preserve in the Colombian Andes. – AOWS Editor

Contact AOWS at: danielfmitchell@hotmail.com

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