Colombia

Amazon basin · 23 protected areas · 267 Indigenous territories

The numbers

  • Forest cover, whole country: 52.8% of land (2023, World Bank — national, not basin-only)
  • Land area, whole country: 1,109,500 km² (2023)
  • Population, whole country: 53,425,635 (2025)
  • Protected areas in the basin: 23, 112,870 km² by GIS area (overlapping designations are summed, not dissolved)
  • Indigenous territories in the basin: 267, 284,628 km² by GIS area
  • Distinct illegal-mining scars centred inside any of its 106 page areas: 11

As of 2026-09-12. Species-at-risk counts and live alert/fire totals are on the dashboard's country card.

Under the most pressure

Protected areas (23)

Indigenous territories with a page (83 largest of 267)

See it live

Defended by people in Colombia

Satellites only watch; these organisations work on the ground. Links go to their own sites — Canopy Watch does not receive or process any funds. More on the Help page.

Elsewhere