Podocarpus National Park

Podocarpus countrywide Park is a national park located within the provinces of Zamora Chinchipe and Loja, inside the south-east of Ecuador. It turned into created in 1982. It covers 1462.eighty km2, from two spurs of the japanese variety of the Andes to the basins of the Nangaritza, Numbala, and Loyola rivers. approximately 85% of the park is within the province of Zamora Chinchipe, and the remainder is in the province of Loja. it's far categorised as a megadiverse area and a place with a excessive stage of endemic species due to the fact it is a assembly point among 4 ecological systems: Northern Andes, Southern Andes, Amazonian, and Pacific.

even though significant know-how has been accrued about its biodiversity in parts of the area, handiest a minority of the species inhabiting the park has been discovered to date. The Podocarpus national Park spans from decrease montane rain forests at c. 1000m up to excessive elevation elfin forests at 3000 m. Paramo or subparamo flora is discovered at elevations 3000 m where a complicated of more than one hundred lagoons exists, the various great-regarded being the Lagunas del Compadre.