Cueva de los Guácharos

This article is about a Colombian national park. For the similarly-named cave and national park in Monagas, Venezuela, see Cueva del Guácharo National Park.

Cueva de los Guacharos
IUCN category II (national park)
Location	Departments of Huila and Caqueta, Colombia
Nearest city	Florencia, Caqueta, Colombia
Coordinates
Area	90.78 km²
Established	November 9, 1960
Governing body	SINAP

Cueva de los Guácharos National Park (English: Cave of the Oilbirds) is the oldest national park in Colombia. Located in the western face of the Colombian Eastern Andean Range in the departments of Huila and Caquetá, the park covers an area of 9,000 hectares (90 km²; 35 sq mi). The caves formed from the karstic zones of the Magdalena and Caquetá rivers.

The park is intended to protect the cloud forest and páramo ecosystems. This area hosts one of the last intact oak forests in the country, with the native oak species Quercus humboldtii (Bonpl.) and Trigonobalanus excelsa (Lozano, 1979)).

Biodiversity

In 2005, the National Natural Parks System identified 296 registered species of birds in the park. Further recorded species are:

Biodiversity in Cueva de los Guácharos

Species	Family	Common name	Range	Conservation status
Lagothrix lagotricha lugens (Humboldt)	Cebidae/Atelinae	churuco monkey	High Amazon valley
Cebus apella (Linné)	Cebidae/Cebinae	corn monkey	Andes\Amazonas
Ateles paniscus (Linné)	Cebidae/Atelinae	marimonda	mid and low Amazon valley
Mazama americana (Erxleben)	Cervidae/Odocoileinae	páramo deer	Neotropic
Mazama rufina (Lesson)	Cervidae/Odocoileinae	páramo deer
Pudu mephistophiles (De Winton)	Cervidae/Odocoileinae	rabbit deer	North andean: N Ecuador- S Colombia
Tapirus pinchaque (Roulin)	Tapiridae	páramo tapir	North andean: N Ecuador- Colombia	threatened