Yariguies Mountains

The Serranía de los Yariguíes rises above the middle Magdalena valley on the western side of Colombia’s Eastern Cordillera. Humid winds from the valley feed forests that climb from the lowlands toward the high Andean slopes. The range takes its name from the Yariguí people, who inhabited the country between the Magdalena and the mountains. Their communities hunted, fished, gathered forest foods and cultivated maize.