Munchique National Park

Munchique National Park

Parque Nacional de Munchique (Munchique National Park) is a national park in Colombia, 440 square kilometres in size. The Park is located west of the city of Popayán, in jurisdiction of El Tambo, on the western slope of the Western Cordillera of the Colombian Andes. The park contains numerous mountains, including Munchique mountain, 3012 metres high. Several tributaries of the San Juan del Micay river flow through the park. The Munchique Wood-wren, new to science in 2003, is named after the area.

External links

* [http://gosouthamerica.about.com/library/blmunchique.htm Location map of the park]
* [http://www.uky.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/mjshar0/munchique.cgi Photos of the park]


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