RECORRIDO VIRTUAL POR LA BIODIVERSIDAD DE COLOMBIA
Museo de Historia Natural
Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Generalities

• It has a total of 347,165 km² that correspond to 30.4% of the national territory and 35% of the Orinoco basin, shared with Venezuela.
• They are normally known as the eastern plains but this region, in addition to the aeolian savannas, it has flooded savannas, gallery forest, high plains and foothills
• The departments in the region are: Meta, Arauca, Casanare and Vichada.
• As it has a Dry Tropical climate with a very particular environmental regime since it has seasons of floods and natural fires; when the latter are generated naturally contribute to the regeneration of the habitats of many species and to the control of their biological cycles.

Tips

1. Throwing materials such as glass and cigarette butts on the ground could cause a fire, since plant material is highly combustible; despite that natural fires occur in the region, when they are caused by human action, they can alter the natural cycles of these ecosystems.
2. In this region the presence of snakes is abundant, if you meet one, move away with caution and always keep calm, do not go to hurt them, surely they are more scared than you. They prey on large numbers of rodents and in some parts of the plains they keep them in the houses to avoid these mammals in the kitchen.

Region map