Laguna La Cocha Cerro Patascoy

What this is

Laguna La Cocha Cerro Patascoy is a reservas forestales protectoras nacionales — a legally designated protected area in Colombia, covering about 501 km², established in 1974. IUCN category V (Protected landscape). Administered at the nacional level. What is permitted inside depends on the category — strict reserves allow almost nothing, national forests and extractive reserves allow managed use — so a detection here is a reason to look, not a verdict.

Detections centred inside · as of 2026-08-23

• Illegal-mining scars: 0 — Amazon Mining Watch, cumulative since 2018
• DETER deforestation alerts cover Brazil only; for Colombia the live dashboard shows Global Forest Watch's integrated alerts over this boundary
• Active fires are a 48-hour feed and change daily — see them live on the dashboard below

A detection counts here when its centre point falls inside the boundary at the time of the monthly bake; extents are the detections' own areas and can straddle the edge. A detection is a satellite-seen change, not a verdict on legality.

Key figures

• Area (GIS): 50,051 ha · 501 km²
• Area (official registry): 49,888 ha
• Type: Reservas Forestales Protectoras Nacionales
• Country: Colombia
• Centre: 1°01′N 77°08′W

From orbit

Esri · Maxar World Imagery — an undated mosaic, not a dated capture.

See it live

• Open on the live map — flown to the boundary with the Protected areas layer on; toggle fires, alerts and mining over it
• Open the 3D globe

More protected areas in Colombia

• Serrania de Chiribiquete — 42,853 km²
• Puinawai — 11,000 km²
• Yaigoje Apaporis — 10,604 km²
• Rio Pure — 9,918 km²
• Nukak — 8,795 km²

Source

Boundary, category and area: RAISG (Amazon Network of Georeferenced Socio-Environmental Information). Mining: Amazon Mining Watch (Earth Genome, CC-BY 4.0). Alerts: INPE DETER. Joined by Canopy Watch on 2026-08-23.

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