Selva de Florencia National Natural Park

**Selva de Florencia National Park** or **Parque Nacional Natural Selva de Florencia** is a place in Colombia.  It is the only piece of Andean rainforest in Colombia's coffee belt, or place full of coffee farms. This park is important because it is in a place where colder places meet warmer places and because it is the only piece of forest left for a long way.

## History

This park was made in 2003. Parques Nacionales Naturales de Colombia runs the park. The forest used to cover 9.6% of the Andes area, but now only a tiny bit is left. The forest in the park is very like the old forest that was there before human beings cut it down.

## Plants

The park has more than 458 different kinds of plants in it. Scientists named two of these plants for the park: _Guzmania betancurii_ and _Meriania selvaflorensis_.

## Animals

Many different kinds of animals live in this park. At least twenty-seven threatened species live in the park, critically endangered, endangered, and vulnerable. There are rain frogs, poison frogs, and glass frogs. Here are some:

- _Andinobates daleswansoni_
- _Atelopus sonsonensis_
- _Pristimantis fetosus_
- _Pristimantis tribulosus_
- _Pristimantis actinolaimus_
- _Pristimantis lichenoides_
- _Pristimantis torrenticola_
- _Pristimantis veletis_
- _Nymphargus spilotus_

Here are some birds that live in the park:

- _Hypopyrrhus pyrohypogaster_
- _Odontophorus hyperythrus_
- _Melanerpes pulcher_
- _Habia cristata_
- _Habia gutturalis_
- _Atlapetes flaviceps_
- _Capito hypoleucus_
- _Cercomacroides parkeri_
- _Ortalis colombiana_
- _Picumnus granadensis_
- _Scytalopus stilesi_
- _Chlorochrysa nitidissima_
- _Capito hypoleucus_
- _Scytalopus stilesi_
- _Hypopyrrhus pyrohypogaster_
- _Atlapetes flaviceps_
- _Chlorochrysa nitidissima_

Here are some animals with fur that live in the park:

- _Xenarthra_
- Bears
- Armadillos
- Foxes
- Coatis
- _Alouatta seniculus_
- _Aotus lemurinus_
- _Saguinus leucopus
- _Cebus versicolor_
- _Ateles hybridus_

Here are some animals with scales that live in the park:

- _Bothrops asper_
- _Bothriechis schlegelii_
- _Erythrolaprus_
- _Mastigodryas_
- _Pseustes shropshirei_
- _Imantodes cenchoa_
- _Anolis tolimensis_

## Place

This reserve is in Colombia's Cordillera Central (Central Mountain Range) in the department of Caldas. It is in two town areas: mostly in Samaná and some in Pensilvania. It is between 850 and 2400 meters above sea level. It is 100.2 square kilometers in size. About 8000 mm of rain and other water falls there every year.

People can drive to the park on the Medllín-Bogotá road, but part of it is not paved. There are also busses.

People call the park _Estrella Hídrica del Oriente Caldense'' or "Water Star of Eastern Caldas."

## Problems

Sometimes, cows walk into the park. The cows step on the plants and make the water dirty. The people who run the park make deals with the cows' owners: The owners will keep the cows out of the park, and the people who run the park made water tanks for the cows to use.

## Infobox (protected area)

- **name**: Selva de Florencia National Park
- **iucn category**: II
- **location**:
Caldas
- **relief**: 1
- **established**: 2003