The most beautiful natural parks in Cundinamarca to enjoy nature

Colombia has a great diversity of parks and natural scenarios that amaze with its beauty and imposing landscapes. Visiting one of these is one of the things that you definitely can not stop doing in your visit to our country, so you know why Colombia is one of the countries with the most biodiversity in the world . For those who are in Bogota, below we present the most beautiful natural parks in Cundinamarca.

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The good thing about Cundinamarca is that it has many natural parks to visit, many of these natural parks in Cundinamarca are near Bogotá , so they are not difficult to access and many of them have a free entrance fee.

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The most beautiful natural parks in Cundinamarca

Quininí Park

Located in the municipality of Tibacuy, is one of the most impressive natural parks in Cundinamarca due to the marvelous nature of its landscape, since it is made up of more than four thousand hectares of native forests, cliffs over 300 meters high, roads and treasures from indigenous communities who inhabited the area and large stones with petroglyphs. Among its vast extension, you will possibly run into other attractions such as Piedra de Palco, Cueva del Mohán and Bosque de Robles , among others.

Sumapaz Park

The Sumapaz National Natural Park is one of the most important moorland ecosystems in Colombia and in the world, as this park protects the largest paramo in the world. This is one of the most valuable natural parks in Cundinamarca , not only for that reason, but because this park feeds most of the department's water sources. Its landscapes are even more impressive and has several walking trails. There are also species of fauna and flora that can only live here and another of its attractions are the ruins of the prison that the dictator Rojas Pinilla used to keep his political prisoners.

Pionono Park

In the municipality of Sopó , there is "the balcony of the sky to the earth", as the inhabitants of the municipality call it, thanks to the impressive views you can get from here, in fact, from the center of Sopó one can already visualize one of its hills that turn the trip into an adventure. This is one of the few natural parks in Cundinamarca that gives us such beautiful views of landscapes.

Piedras del Tunjo Park

One of the natural parks in Cundinamarca, where apart from nature you can enjoy archeology, is the Piedras del Tunjo Park , which is the main attraction of this beautiful natural scenery that is located in the municipality of Facatativá. Its huge stones are visited by thousands of people each year because they are metamorphic stones, which corresponds to the Upper Cretaceous period, and which is probably the result of earth pressure and that with the development of the lithosphere end up being the floor of this large lake perhaps used to covered the Savannah of Bogotá.

Jericho Park

The Jericó Ecological Park is one of the natural parks in Cundinamarca of unparalleled beauty, which also offer various activities such as fishing, walking through it several trails through which you can explore the park, horseback riding and, spent the night, if you want . It is located very close to La Vega and reaching it is very easy.

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