The Guaramacal National Park ( es, Parque nacional Guaramacal) Also General Cruz Carrillo National Park Is a protected area with the status of a
national park
A national park is a nature park, natural park in use for conservation (ethic), conservation purposes, created and protected by national governments. Often it is a reserve of natural, semi-natural, or developed land that a sovereign state dec ...
located between the states of
Portuguesa and
Trujillo in the South American country of
Venezuela
Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in th ...
. It has an area of about and includes the Guaramacal Branch, the most northerly spur of the Cordillera de Mérida. The limits of the park are in height, and the maximum elevation, in the moor of Guaramacal, is to .
The Guaramacal can be distinguished by a great endemism, highlighted by the presence of species such as the palmera frailejón ''Ruilopezia paltoniode''.
Its flora is still under study and the provisional inventory has about 1,227 species, highlighting an important richness of orchids and ferns, as well as various endemic species of frailejones.
The first floristic studies within the park date from 1987, and mentioned a total of 482 species of plants. A more thorough and systematic study in 2000 yielded a total of 147 families, 517 genera and at least 1227 species, providing descriptions for 33 new taxa for science.
Gallery
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See also
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List of national parks of Venezuela
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Mochima National Park
Mochima National Park ( ) is located in the States of Anzoátegui and Sucre (state), on the northeastern coast of Venezuela. The park covers 94,935 hectares and is made up of an exclusively marine area in its western sector (Anzoátegui State), ...
References
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National parks of Venezuela
Protected areas established in 1988
Geography of Lara (state)
Geography of Portuguesa (state)
Tourist attractions in Lara (state)
Tourist attractions in Portuguesa (state)
1988 establishments in Venezuela