This is one of those destinations that you don’t want to miss, it is an amazing marvel of nature. inside of National park with the same name, a small town from Meta Department located around 270kms to the east of Bogotá, the capital of the country.
Caño Cristales is a small river coming down La Macarena Sierra which is part of a unique region. Its rock Quartzite is part of the Guyanan Shield, one of the most ancient geological formations in the world and more than 1.2 billion years old, this small and isolated chain of mountains emerges alongside the Andes and into the Colombian Llanos just at the border of Amazonian Jungle; demarking its importance between the three different ecosystems.
Is famous for the Macarena Clavigera, a unique aquatic plant that lives in this river that spans 100kms and changes its color into red only once a year between July and November, and then turns into green again, as if it is starting to hibernate until the next year.