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{{Short description|Region in Colombia}}
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{{Infobox ecoregion
|name                = Amazon region
|image               = Mapa de Colombia (región Amazónica).svg
|ecozone             = [[Neotropic]]
|biome               = Rainforest, Wetlands
|country             = {{flag|Colombia}}
|rivers              = [[Caquetá River|Caquetá]], [[Putumayo River|Putumayo]], [[Amazon River|Amazon]]
|climate             = '''Tropical'''
|global200           = 
|coordinates         = {{WikidataCoord|display=inline,title}}
}}
{{Amazon rainforest}}
[[Image:Amazon rainforest.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The Amazon Region of Colombia is part of the [[Amazon rainforest]].]]
'''Amazonía region''' in southern [[Colombia]] comprises the [[Departments of Colombia|departments]] of [[Amazonas (Colombian department)|Amazonas]], [[Caquetá Department|Caquetá]], [[Guainía Department|Guainía]], [[Guaviare Department|Guaviare]], [[Putumayo Department|Putumayo]] and [[Vaupés Department|Vaupés]], and covers an area of 483,000&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>, 35% of Colombia's total territory.  The region is mostly covered by [[tropical rainforest]], or jungle, which is a part of the greater [[Amazon rainforest]].

==Biogeographical subregions==
The region is bounded by the [[Cordillera Oriental (Colombia)|East Andes]] along the western edge and extends to the Venezuelan and Brazilian borders in the east.  The northern limit begins with the Guaviare and Vichada Rivers and extends south to the Putumayo and Amazon Rivers.

The Amazon region is divided up into distinct subregions:
* Amazon foothills:  bordering the East Andes
* [[Caquetá River]] Plain: the main watershed of this region
* [[Inírida River]] Plain: location of the famous [[Cerros de Mavecure]]
* [[Guaviare River]] Plain: shared with the [[Orinoquía Region, Colombia|Eastern Plains]]
* [[Putumayo River]] Plain: along the southern border
* [[Serranía de Chiribiquete]]
* Amazon Trapezium:  the area of land that actually borders with the [[Amazon River]]

Other important rivers include the Vaupés, Apaporis and Yarí.

== Biodiversity ==
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The tropical rainforest, classified more specifically as a [[tropical moist broadleaf forest]].  Within the Colombian Amazon region, there are five moist forest [[ecoregion]]s:
* [[Caquetá moist forests]]:  the largest part of the Colombian Amazon region centered on the Caquetá, Vaupés, Yarí, and Apaporis Rivers
* [[Napo moist forests]]:  the southwest corner of the Colombian Amazon region, which borders the Andes and includes the headwaters of the Caquetá and Putumayo Rivers
* [[Solimões-Japurá moist forests]]: in Colombia this ecoregion is centered on the Putumayo and Amazon Rivers
* [[Japurá-Solimões-Negro moist forests]]:  this ecoregion barely extends into Colombia mainly around the Lower Vaupés and Negro Rivers
* [[Campinarana]]:  this ecoregion of white sandy forest and swamps barely extends into Colombia around the Negro River in the Department of Vaupés

==Protected areas==

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* PNN Alto Fragua Indi-Wasi
* [[Amacayacu National Park|PNN Amacayacu]]
* PNN Cahuinarí
* [[Serranía de Chiribiquete|PNN Serranía de Chiribiquete]]
* RNN Nukak
* PNN La Paya
* [[Puinawai Natural Reserve|RNN Puinawai]]
* PNN ío Puré
* [[Serranía de los Churumbelos|PNN Serranía de los Churumbelos Auka-Wasi]]
* PNN Tinigua
* PNN Yaigojé Apaporis

==See also==
*[[Amazonas (Colombian department)]]
*[[Territorial Environmental Information System of the Colombian Amazon]]

== External links ==
{{Wikivoyage|Amazonia (Colombia)}}
*[http://siatac.co/web/guest/ Territorial-Environmental Information System of Colombian Amazon SIAT-AC website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200617100909/http://siatac.co/web/guest |date=2020-06-17 }}

==References==
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[[Category:Amazon rainforest]]
[[Category:Natural regions of Colombia]]
[[Category:Amazon basin]]