" Chiribiquete is very special because of its biologic , cultural , hydrological and archaeological value . It has rock ‘n’ roll prowess and visual records of over-the-top magnitude . It is also of full of life importance for indigenous group living in voluntary isolation,”saidMary Lou Higgins , Director of WWF - Colombia . “ The filename extension and recognition of this office as a World Heritage Site is an important step to ensure its maintenance for succeeding generations . ”
Indigenous community view the region sacred . Over 70,000 paintings are found along the wall of more than 60 careen shelters , making it the old and bombastic pictographic building complex in the Americas . connect to jaguar adoration , the symbolisation of mogul and fecundity , paintings describe hunt scenes , battles , ceremony , and dances that tell the stories of autochthonous people that lived there thousand of years ago .
The park ’s remote location and stuffy proximity to armed conflict makestudyingits biodiversity difficult . However , researchers hypothesise thousand of metal money live in this field , dozens of which are autochthonic and several threatened , including the Amazonian tapir , the jumbo otter , and the jaguar . More than 700 species of plants , 200 Pisces the Fishes , nearly 300 diurnal butterfly stroke , and scads of mammals , reptile , and amphibian will be protected under this novel assignment .
The area ’s unique biodiversity lends reference to its pivotal locating in the southern provinces of Caquetá and Guaviare where four ecosystems meet – the Amazon , Orinoquía , Andes , and Guiana Shield .
The latest expanding upon mean that the park now spans a total of 4.3 million hectares ( 10.6 million acres ) . Colombia ’s chairperson Juan Manuel Santos lionise UNESCO ’s determination , declare it “ great newsworthiness for Colombia , " allot toColombia Reports .
Colombia is one of the world ’s most biodiverse countries , yet deforestation jeopardize its selection . In this same realm , a2017 studyclassified 2,700 species – 503 animals and 2,194 plants – as endangered due to accelerate logging , hunting , andcoca production .
