La Conejera
swamp in Colombia
La Conejera (Spanish: Humedal La Conejera; Spanish pronunciation: [umeðal la konejeɾa]) is a wetland, part of the Wetlands of Bogotá, located in the locality Suba, Bogotá, Colombia. The wetland, in the Juan Amarillo River basin on the Bogotá savanna covers an area of 58.9 hectares (146 acres).
Flora and fauna
Insects
The dragonfly species Ischnura cruzi has been registered in La Conejera, as well as in Santa María del Lago and Metropolitan Park La Florida.
Birds
La Conejera contains the second-most bird species of the wetlands of Bogotá, after Córdoba Wetland, with 95, of which 6 endemic. The habitat of the American coot has been studied in 2002. The floating pennywort (Hydrocotyle ranunculoides), present in various wetlands of Bogotá, proved essential for the bird.
Endemic species unique for this wetland are:
Panorama
See also
Biodiversity of Colombia, Bogotá savanna, Thomas van der Hammen Natural Reserve
Wetlands of Bogotá
References
Bibliography
Andrade L., Martha Esperanza; Benitez Castañeda, Henry, Los Humedales de la Sabana de Bogotá: Área Importante para la Conservación de las Aves de Colombia y el Mundo (PDF), AICAS, pp. 1–38, archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-05-10, retrieved 2017-03-03
Moreno, Vanesa; García, Juan Francisco; Villalba, Juan Carlos, Descripción general de los humedales de Bogotá D.C. (PDF), Sociedad Geográfica de Colombia, pp. 1–28, retrieved 2017-03-03
Otero Durán, Ivonne (2002), Hábitat functional de la Focha Americana (Fulica americana columbiana) en un humedal de la Sabana de Bogotá (BSc) (PDF), Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, pp.
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