ECO-TOURISM IN COLOMBIA

Provides effective economic incentives
for conserving and enhancing biocultural
diversity and helps protect the natural and
cultural heritage.

The approaches will help community-based
ecotourism around the world to fight against
poverty and to achieve sustainable development.

The approaches are for example

Helping local draft business plans

Employment opportunities

Promote new avenues to market

Forges emotional and intellectual connections
between the interest of the tourists and
meanings inherent in the resource.

Promotes understanding and
appreciation for

Local Society

Nature

Culture

Most common activities in ecotourism involve hiking, trekking, visit volcanoes, river rafting, bird watching, whale watching, horse riding, camping, surfing and snorkelling.

Represent 11.6% of the
territory

Colombia's Caribbean Coast
stretches from Panama on the
west to Venezuela on the east

Composed of eight Departments

Have more that 14 beaches

Beaches like Nuqui, Bahia
Solano, La Barra and Ladrilleros

Hundreds of humpback whales
migrate to mate and calve

Some turtle species to deposit
their eggs in the beaches

San Andres and Providencia

Rosario Islands

Pacific Islands like Gorgona
and Malpelo

The Cordillera Occidental

The cordillera Central

The cordillera Oriental

These mountains are home to
many landscapes, flora and fauna
and ancient ruins.

Colombian llaneros

Is home of the animals like
jaguars, tapirs, ocelots, etc

Composed for three Departments

Are a huge area of grassland that
floods for seven months of every
year and dries up for the remaining
five.

Represent 41% of the
territory

Remote towns

Natural reserves

Wildlife parks

The amazon river is the largest
in the world. 6800 kilometers.

Indigenous reservations.