La Conejera (Spanish: Humedal La Conejera) is a wetland, part of the Wetlands of Bogotá, located in the locality Suba, Bogotá, Colombia. The wetland, in the Juan Amarillo River basin on the Bogotá savanna covers an area of 58.9 hectares (146 acres).[1]
Flora and fauna
The floating pennywort grows in La Conejera and is a main source of food for the American coot
Insects
The dragonfly species Ischnura cruzi has been registered in La Conejera, as well as in Santa María del Lago and Metropolitan Park La Florida.[2]
Birds
La Conejera contains the second-most bird species of the wetlands of Bogotá, after Córdoba Wetland, with 95, of which 6 endemic.[3][4] The habitat of the American coot has been studied in 2002. The floating pennywort (Hydrocotyle ranunculoides), present in various wetlands of Bogotá, proved essential for the bird.[5]
^Bota-Sierra, C.; Palacino, F.; Rache, L. (2016). "Ischnura cruzi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T49254523A49255309. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T49254523A49255309.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
Andrade L., Martha Esperanza, and Henry Benitez Castañeda. s.a. Los Humedales de la Sabana de Bogotá: Área Importante para la Conservación de las Aves de Colombia y el Mundo, 1-38. AICAS. Accessed 2017-03-03.
Moreno, Vanesa; Juan Francisco García, and Juan Carlos Villalba. s.a. Descripción general de los humedales de Bogotá D.C., 1-28. Sociedad Geográfica de Colombia. Accessed 2017-03-03.
Otero Durán, Ivonne. 2002. Hábitat functional de la Focha Americana (Fulica americana columbiana) en un humedal de la Sabana de Bogotá (BSc), 1-47. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Accessed 2017-03-03.
External links
(in Spanish) Fundación Humedales de Bogotá
(in Spanish) Conozca los 15 humedales de Bogotá - El Tiempo
La Conejera Wetland 
Colombia portal
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