Forest Reserve Tarpeya

Location: sidewalk Juancho

It is located northwest of the Department of Huila, 81 km from the city Neiva in Juancho village in the municipality of Iquira, at a distance of 6 km from the town, and saw that the trail leads to Villa Maria.

This park is equipped with an adequate cabin to receive the eco tourists who visit, with a capacity for fifty people and also has a GUI that takes you through the forest and waterfalls.

In Tarpeya tourism it is encouraged and strengthened as a center for experimental research to the practice of forestry and environmental studies offered to institutions, universities, colleges, schools  and community. This research center has allowed some organizations to conduct studies in different areas.

Tarpeya is a nature reserve that serves as administrative headquarters of the Nevado del Huila NNP, has altitudes between 1,300 and 2,500 meters above sea level; Minimum temperature 15 ° C and 32 ° C and average maximum temperatures between 18 ° C - 22 ° C; The reserve has a total area of ​​474 hectares, made up of lots or Tarpeya (house and surroundings), El Meson, Rincon, Chicoral, Casas Verdes, Colombia, Kikuyal and Limbo sites.

biodiversity

Tarpeya Forest Reserve is the habitat for countless birds, mammals, insects that help balance and maintain biodiversity. As for fauna they are: deer, foxes, armadillos, squirrels, borugas, guaras, chucuros, stingrays, bears, ocelots, monkeys, sloths, bush dogs, weasels; birds: eagles, hawks, turkeys, guichas, redfish, yataroas, tintinas, muchileros, toripiscos, tominejos mountain, blackbirds, embarradoras, cardinals, woodpeckers; reptiles: snakes (oxtail chili, coral, false coral, hunter, X, cabuya), frogs and countless insects.

By: Dumar Andres Arias Mosquera.