The Canopy Global 1000 ranks the world’s land protected areas by conservation value: how irreplaceable the species they hold are, how connected they are to other protected land, and how intact they are, weighted by size. Plant data is being added to the ranking, so both versions are shown side by side. Neither is the final word.
Without plants, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta ranks 190 of 1,000. With plants it ranks 196. It stays in the top 300 either way, which is why it is here.
16.4 million tonnes of carbon inside the boundary is irrecoverable: if it were lost, it could not be recovered by 2050.
No forest-loss figure is published for this area: no forest record: CG1K measures Hansen loss only in forest biomes.
Canopy’s country readiness score (C-RISK) and its weekly satellite feeds have not been published for this area. Its PACE management score has not been published either.
| WDPA id | 132 |
|---|---|
| Canopy Global 1000 list | cg1k-22ffffd |
| Boundary and area source | WDPA-Jun2026 |
| Forest source | Hansen Global Forest Change v1.12 |
| Carbon source | Noon et al. (2022) |
| Canonical URL | https://canopyconservation.com/park/sierra-nevada-de-santa-marta |
UNEP-WCMC and IUCN (2026), Protected Planet: The World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) [June 2026], Cambridge, UK: UNEP-WCMC and IUCN. Available at: www.protectedplanet.net.
Hansen, M. C. et al. (2013), High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest Cover Change, Science 342: 850-853. Data: Global Forest Change 2000 to 2024, v1.12, University of Maryland, CC BY 4.0.
Noon, M. L. et al. (2022), Mapping the irrecoverable carbon in Earth’s ecosystems, Nature Sustainability 5: 37-46, doi:10.1038/s41893-021-00803-6.
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Canopy (2026). Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia: Canopy Global 1000 rank 190 without plants, 196 with plants. Canopy Conservation, cg1k-22ffffd. Retrieved from https://canopyconservation.com/park/sierra-nevada-de-santa-marta
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