Cueva de los Guácharos

Cueva de los Guácharos National Natural Park (English: Cave of the Oilbirds) is the oldest national park in Colombia. Located in the western face of the Colombian Eastern Andean Range in the departments of Huila and Caquetá, the park covers an area of 9,000 hectares (90 km2; 35 sq mi). The caves formed from the karstic zones of the Magdalena and Caquetá rivers.

This article is about a Colombian national park. For the similarly-named cave and national park in Monagas, Venezuela, see Cueva del Guácharo National Park.
Cueva de los Guácharos
IUCN category II (national park)
LocationHuila & Caqueta, Colombia
Nearest city
Coordinates1°33′N 76°8′W
Area90.78 km2 (35.05 sq mi)
EstablishedNovember 9, 1960
Governing bodySINAP

The park is intended to protect the cloud forest and páramo ecosystems. This area hosts one of the last intact oak forests in the country, with the native oak species Quercus humboldtii (Bonpl.) and Trigonobalanus excelsa (Lozano, 1979)).

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