All selected stations have a basic infrastruture supporting research activities. Collaborating institutions are the regional environmental corporation and the Humboldt Institute. The ecosystem represented is tropical dry forest and it is one of the few reserve areas in the country where this ecosystem is present. The Humboldt Institute carried out a rapid ecological assessment in this area with very interesting results that lead to the decision to include this station in the network because of biological significance of the site. It is located in the buffer zone of Los Nevados National Park.
Annual rainfall is about three thousend milimeters.
Collaborating institutions are the regional environmental corporation and the Humboldt Institute as well as the Ministry of the Environment through the National Park Service. The ecosystem represented is cloud montane forest. The Humboldt Institute has two PhD level associated researchers working in a fragmentation ecology projects. Other institutions involved with this project are Wildlife Conservation Society, Colombia National Science Foundation among others. Annual rainfall ranges from three thousend to four thousand milimeters.