Colombia

Entry into force

18 October 1998

Ramsar sites

11

Surface area of

936.442
ha
Sites
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Documents
National reports(8)
Ramsar Advisory Missions(1)
World Wetlands Day reports(13)
National policies & strategies(1)
Tourism and wetlands(1)
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Complejo Cenagoso de Ayapel
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Complejo Cenagoso de Ayapel
Complejo Cenagoso de Ayapel
Néstor Jaime Aguirre Ramirez, 2009
Senior Regional Advisor for Americas, Maria Rivera, is handing over the Ramsar Site certificate to the Minister of Environment of Colombia for the designation of the Complex of Wetlands of the Cauca River and Laguna de Sonso as the 7th Ramsar Site of Colombia.
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The "Foro Nacional Ambiental" on the socio-environmental crisis facing the Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta. From right: Omar Franco, Director of IDEAM (Instituto de Hidrología, Meteorología y Estudios Ambientales), Luis Gilberto Murillo Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development, Martha-Rojas Urrego, Ramsar Convention Secretary General, Sanda Vilardy, Dean of the Faculty of Science Magdalena University.



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Humedal localizado dentro del Parque Nacional Natural los nevados, en la cordillera Central de Colombia. El complejo se abastecen de agua a más de medio millón de colombianos. Su importancia,es elevada, para el ser humano y la naturaleza.
Karol Fernanda Montoya D
Every month the Foundation organises volunteers days to maintain and clean wetlands and to plant trees
Coastline is changing. Mangroves along the coast are facing severe land use change due to unplanned city expansion, diminishing the ecosystem services these provide to society such as extreme tides control. Cartagena city, as many others located by the sea, is seriously threated by sea level rise and increase of extreme events frequency, and mangroves are natural barriers which reduce the impact of these phenomena. Unfortunately unplanned urban soil expansion is taking over this ecosystems, increasing the exposure of society to sea level change risks and demanding in the future expensive grey infrastructure based solutions for a problem which nature can help us to solve for free.
Jorge Leon
Libertad que les dan las alas para ir tan lejos como quieran. Este es el humedal Videles ubicado en el departamento del Valle del Cauca, Colombia.
Juan Sebastian Bermudez Salcedo
Traditional fisherman launches his "atarraya" looking for the catch of the day early in the morning. In the past, before the coastal wetland was degraded with polluted waters from the surrounding city of Cartagena and it's communicating channels with the sea closed due to unplanned city expansion, fish production was remarkable, supporting the native people from fishers town La Boquilla to live from fish commercialization only. Nowadays this natural resource is so scarce that fishing in most cases is a unwanted job, only practiced by elders.
Jorge Leon
humedales corregimiento lorica nariño palo de agua
Bleiner David Avila
Santa Marta, Colombia
Miguel Ángel Ospino Martínez
Un espejo de agua que refleja nuestro futuro. Este es el humedal Videles ubicado en el departamento del Valle del Cauca, Colombia.
Juan Sebastian Bermudez Salcedo
Different stakeholders, from the local to national levels, including governmental agencies, community representatives, policy makers, parliamentarians and academia have actively engaged to mobilize action, join efforts and identify solutions to save the Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta Ramsar Site.
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