La Matilde

An Education and a Research Center

The center is located near Arbeláez, Sumapaz, Cundinamarca, Colombia in the Northern Andean montane rain forest at an altitude of about 1650m or 1 mile. Show interactive street map. These forests are home to more species than any other terrestrial ecosystem on Earth.

Temperatures typically range between 19 °C (67 °F) and 20 °C (69 °F) through the year, but rarely can drop to 12 °C (54 °F) or can rise to as high as 26 °C (80 °F). The average annual precipitation amounts to about 11835 mm (466.0 inches) and receives 343 rainy days on the 1 mm (0.04 inches) threshold annually. Arbelaez enjoys an average of 3250 hours of sunshine throughout the year, and daylight varies from 11 hours 52 minutes to 12 hours 20 minutes per day. From nomadseason