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Colombia

1697
Total Protected Areas
60 With management effectiveness evaluations
Terrestrial and Inland Waters Protected Areas
Marine Protected Areas
Other effective area-based conservation measures
47
Total Other effective area-based conservation measures
Polygons/Points ratio
Polygons 100%
Points 0%
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Terrestrial and inland waters protected area coverage

17% Coverage

193,265km2 Land area covered

1,136,647km2 Total land area

11.27% 0th National Report coverage

PAME

12.76% With management effectiveness evaluations

145,000km2 Areas assessed

Marine protected area Coverage

41.11% Coverage

299,400km2 Marine and coastal area covered

728,247km2 Total marine and coastal area

1.50% 0th National Report coverage

PAME

7.17% With management effectiveness evaluations

52,190km2 Areas assessed

Disclaimer: These statistics might differ from those reported officially by countries due to difference in methodologies and datasets used to assess protected area coverage and differences in the base maps used to measure terrestrial and marine area of a country or territory.

IUCN Management Categories

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Governance types

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Sources 5

  1. National PA Registry of Colombia-RUNAP Updated: 2024 Parques Nacionales Naturales de Colombia
  2. UNESCO World Heritage Sites Updated: 2024 IUCN World Heritage Programme
  3. Cartagena Convention Updated: 2017 UNEP-CEP
  4. ICCAs of Colombia Updated: 2021 Centro de Estudios Médicos Interculturales (CEMI)
  5. Serranía el Pinche Updated: 2022 Asociación Agroambiental Santa Clara Serranía el Pinche

Designations

  • 99.59%
  • 0.18%
  • 0.18%
  • 0.06%

National designations

1690
  • Regional Protective Forest Reserves 98
  • Regional Natural Parks 60
  • Fauna Sanctuary 1
  • National Natural Park 44
  • Integrated Management National Districts 5
  • Integrated Management Regional Districts 123
  • Civil Society Nature Reserve 1253
  • Nature Reserve 3
  • Recreation Area 12
  • Indigenous reserve 1
  • Fauna and Flora Sanctuary 9
  • Soil Conservation Districts 21
  • Park Way 1
  • Unique Natural Area 1
  • National Protective Forest Reserves 56
  • Flora Sanctuary 2

Regional designations

3
  • Specially Protected Area (Cartagena Convention) 3

International designations

3
  • World Heritage Site (natural or mixed) 3

Other designations

1
  • ICCA 1

citation

UNEP-WCMC (2025). Protected Area Profile for Colombia from the World Database on Protected Areas, March 2025. Available at: www.protectedplanet.net

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UNEP-WCMC and IUCN (2025), Protected Planet: The World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) and World Database on Other Effective Area-based Conservation Measures (WD-OECM) [Online], March 2025, Cambridge, UK: UNEP-WCMC and IUCN. Available at: www.protectedplanet.net.