Sierra La Culata National Park


The Sierra La Culata National Park Also Sierra de la Culata National Park is a national park of Venezuela that is located in the northeastern branch of the Venezuelan Andes, in the states Mérida and Trujillo. It was decreed a national park on December 7, 1989. It has a high mountain climate, with temperatures ranging between, and its surface area is.
The vegetation is characterized by the presence of numerous species of frailejones, shrubs such as ericaceae and melastomataceae; ferns and numerous mosses, liver lichens and fungi. The tree of the zone is the Coloradito.
This park houses species such as the Jaguar, the Spectacled bear, the Armadillo, the Loach, the Andean condor, and amphibians such as the nurse frog.
Within the park are at least one endemic species of brachythermal butterfly.

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File:Sierra de La Culata nevada.jpg|Snow
File:Páramo de Mucubají.jpg| Mucubají paramo
File:Laguna Las Iglesias.jpg|Las Iglesias Lagoon
File:Detrás de una gran flor siempre hay un gran paisaje.jpg|View of the Sierra
File:Familia equina.jpg|Horses in the park
File:VIsta de la Laguna la Calzona llegando por el paramo los torres.jpg|La Calzona Lagoon
File:Valle El Muerto.jpg| El Muerto Valley
File:Valle de Mifafí 4.jpg|Mifafí Valley
File:Valle de las Cascadas.jpg|Las Cascadas Valley
File:Picos en la culata.jpg|Mountains in the Park