Los Nevados National Park
Colombia, near the cities of Ibagh, Pereira, Armenia and Manizales.
Description:
Los Nevados is a Colombian National Park located near the cities of Ibage, Pereira, Armenia and Manizales. The area of the park is 583 square kilometers. The average height above sea level is 3,960 meters, although this figure ranges from 2,600 meters to 5,321 meters.
There are eight volcanoes in the national park. One of them called Nevado del Ruiz is not only the highest, but also an active volcano. Also on the territory there is a lake with an area of 1.5 kilometers square Otun.
Los Nevados National Park has a huge number of unique flora and fauna, for example, 200 species of mosses, 180 species of fungi, 20 species of bats. Among the animals there is a spectacle bear, a puma, a white-eared opossum, a mountain tapir.
According to its weather conditions, the following climate is observed here: the air temperature is the lowest -3 degrees, the maximum - +14 degrees. The minimum rainfall is observed in January/February and July/August. The maximum level is in April/May.