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Chronicles of regeneration

Chronicles of regeneration in the Northern Andes: dry tropical forest, regenerative education and the people sowing water and life in this territory.


Bioregions Series

Regeneration at the scale of a bioregion

An 1850 watercolour of the Chita snow peak, with a páramo of frailejones and two travellers by a fire

Episode 01

What Is a Bioregion?

Before the tap, the water you drank today crossed a mountain. That path draws a territory no government ever drew.

Forested Andean mountains with a band of mist over a valley of pastures and a winding road

Episode 02

The Northern Andes

Where the range splits in three, water flows to the Caribbean, the Pacific, the Amazon and the Orinoco. No border divides it.

A silver-leaved frailejón in the foreground against the mountains of the páramo

Episode 03

One River, Many Worlds

From frailejón to cactus there is a single river. We follow the Fonce from the páramo to the dry Suárez canyon below Barichara.

A white egret in the Meléndez River among stones and bamboo, in the Multicentro Urban Forest in Cali

Episode 04

The City Is a Bioregion Too

In the south of Cali, beside the Meléndez River, neighbours turned a park into a forest. It now has 118 bird species.


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