Travel Guide Parque Nacional Natural El Tuparro

This natural reserve of 548 000 hectares is located in the eastern Llanos department of. Declared a National Monument in 1970 and a biosphere reserve by UNESCO in 1982, he was visited by Humboldt, who kept a memory loaded with emotion. Humboldt had the privilege of learning the preparation of the world's most dangerous plant poison called Curare, with the natives, he knew how to move smoothly in the jungle, cross rivers and savanes through the venom that fed the arrows of the arrows. In the early years of the colony, only the Guahibos and the Cuibas lived. They do not mix with the white man. To enter this park, it is essential to be accompanied, preferring December to February for the state of the road. In the Administrative Centre area there is a weather station for measuring instruments, and the Mirador Lagoon at 15 minutes where a minute trail is ideal to observe the river fauna.Pictograms are located in Cerro Iculi and Peinillas and some rocks of Cerro Thomas. But also two Indian cemeteries on the same Cerro Peinillas and Carestia Island in Venezuela. Transport. Various overland routes are possible. From Bogota to Villavicencio, you can count around 3 hours. Then go to Gaviotas - Tapón to the Administrative Centre, all this in only 25 extra hours. From El Burro, Puerto Ayacucho takes one hour. Think of your gas tank, the last service station is in Puerto Gaitan, after it is difficult to find the gasolina! From the river, from Puerto Carreño to El Burro (15 minutes), from Puerto Carreño to Casuarito (1 hour), from Casuarito to Puerto Ayacucho (10 minutes) and from Montaña Fría to Campement camp - Maipures (1 hour and half). By air, Bogotá in Puerto Carreño in 3 hours and 40 minutes. The park has its own airstrip at the administrative centre of 1 800 metres long for light aircraft and another located in El Tapon 1 200 m long. Accommodation. Possibility of camping next to the administrative centre, or around the cabin of Yí del Tuparro where you can prepare meals provided you take your supplies.