It is home to the world's largest collection of birds (1,900), butterflies (3,600) and orchid species (more than 4,000).
Today, tourism is the largest non-mining sector of energy and we want to make it a more important part of the national economy.
There are six tourist areas in the country: Greater Caribbean and Pacific, Amazon-Orinoco and Eastern and Western Andes, as well as the Colombian Massif.