La Florida (wetland)
# La Florida (wetland)

La Florida is a wetland and park known as the Parque Metropolitano La Florida. La Florida is located across the Bogotá River from Jaboque wetland in the municipality Funza, Cundinamarca, close to Cota. La Florida does not belong to the protected wetlands of Bogotá.

## Flora and fauna

### Birds

In La Florida, 90 species of birds have been registered, of which 13 endemic, uniquely in this wetland:

| Name | Species |
| - | - |
| green heron | Butorides virescens |
| paramo seedeater | Catamenia homochroa |
| ringed kingfisher | Megaceryle torquata |
| fulvous whistling duck | Dendrocygna bicolor |
| swallow-tailed kite | Elanoides forficatus |
| little blue heron | Florida caerulea |
| common snipe | Gallinago gallinago |
| laughing gull | Larus atricilla |
| brown-chested martin | Phaeoprogne tapera frusca |
| Neotropic cormorant | Phalacrocorax olivaceus |
| yellow-faced grassquit | Tiaris olivacea |
| rufescent tiger heron | Tigrisoma lineatum |
| silvery-throated spinetail | Synallaxis subpudica |

### Insects

The dragonfly species Ischnura cruzi has been registered in La Florida, as well as in La Conejera and Santa María del Lago.

