Photos of the snowfalls in El Cocuy Natural Park – People – Culture

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The snowfalls in El Cocuy have delighted those who have witnessed them, for 4 days at the beginning of 2021. The last time the phenomenon occurred in large proportions was in 2018.

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Tourists and guides of the El Cocuy National Park have been surprised with the snowfalls that have been registered in the last days in the area.

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Media de Boyacá, one of the departments where El Cocuy is located, They have stated that these times are usually summer, so the snowfalls have been a surprise.

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Specifically, snowfalls have been registered in the Sierra de Güicán, also known by the name of Cocuy or Chita.

The other department in which the Park is located is Arauca.

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The guide María López García (photo) It was from one of the people who witnessed, live and direct, one of the snowfalls.

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The Sierra Nevada El Cocuy is the largest glacier in the country (13.3 km²) and, for 2017, it registered a rate of ice loss of 4.8% per year.

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In 2016, the El Cocuy National Park was closed for six at the request of the U’wa indigenous people, who said that the territory was deteriorated.It is worth clarifying that the territory where the Park is located is U’wa ancestral territory.

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The last major snowfall in El Cocuy occurred in August 2018.