South American tapir
Presently, capybaras live in northern South America and adjacent southern Central America (lesser capybara) and in the tropical to subtropical regions of South America (capybara). The fossil species inhabited Buenos Aires Province in Argentina ("H. ballesterensis") and the Caribbean island of Grenada ("H. gaylordi"). Fossils of unspecified "Hydrochoerus" have been found in Late Pleistocene to Holocene sediments of Curití, Santander, at an altitude of in the Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes. Fauna found at the same site included the South American tapir ("Tapirus terrestris"), "Cryptotis" sp., collared peccary ("Tayassu tajacu"), white-lipped peccary ("Tayassu pecari"), and "Mazama" sp.