Sumapaz Mountains

Sumapaz is a vast páramo in Colombia’s Eastern Cordillera, south of the Bogotá highland. Its cold, misty uplands hold glacial lakes, wetlands and the headwaters of rivers flowing toward the Magdalena and Orinoco. Frailejones and grasses grow above the mountain forests. Muisca and Sutagao communities inhabited neighbouring valleys, and the high country held sacred significance in Muisca tradition.