Cotopaxi

Ecuador, Andes Mountains

Ecuador National Parks The highest active volcano in the world is the volcano Cotopaxi, which is 200 km south of Quito. The road to the volcano is called the "avenue of volcanoes", wild horses, domesticated llamas, deer walk along it calmly, hummingbirds and Andean chibis fly out of the thickets

Sangay

Morona-Santiago

Ecuadorian National Parks A unique corner of wildlife on the slope of the volcano of the same name is in the volcanic region of the Andes. The uniqueness of the park "Sangai" is that there are eight high-altitude belts of vegetation. The park includes 324 lakes, the three highest volcanoes in Ecuador.

The unique flora and fauna of Ecuador allows the country to confidently enter the top three of the continent in terms of the number of reserves and national parks. For example, it's worth visiting the Sangai National Park, which is located 170 km south of Quito. It is a huge reserve (about 520 thousand hectares), which occupies one of the most inaccessible areas of the country and is famous for the diversity of rare animals living in unique conditions - from evergreen tropical forests to high mountain glaciers.

Yasuni National Park (Oriente province) - the most a large nature protection zone of the country, which preserves the arrays of dry mountain and wet tropical forest. About 60% of all species of Ecuadorian mammals live here, more than 520 species of birds, and up to 473 species of trees are found on one hectare, which is a world record. On the northern outskirts of the park, in the Huaorani reserve, there lives a large group of indigenous indigenous Indian tribes

On the northern outskirts of Yasuni Park, in the Huaorani reserve, there lives a large group of indigenous indigenous Indian tribes.

The only coastal national park in Ecuador deserves attention - Machallina. It is located north of Guayaquil and protects the only coral formation on the mainland coast of the country - Isla de la Plata, tropical dry forest, and wet rain forest. Here you can also see the archaeological sites of the pre-Columbian era and the noisy bird community.

Such a variety of habitats also include the Forest Reserve of Posoca (30 km southeast of Quito) and the Podocarpus National Park (between Locha and Zamora). Other parks are of equal interest to tourists: the El-Angel reserve (an extensive system of lakes and unique forests), the Mindo-Nambilo reserve (the largest variety of bird species in the country), the national parks of Cotopaxi and Liangantes (trout and salmon rivers).

Relict mangrove forests that serve as a shelter for dozens of species of marine life and birds are protected by the Katahe-Kayapas (Esmeraldas) and Manglares-Cirutė nature reserves. In Manglárs-Cirut, you can also find dry tropical forest and a shallow lagoon of 1,000 hectares, home to about 300,000 birds, as well as other unique flora and fauna.