Amaga Field Guide
By: Santiago González P. 7.2
Amagá
Amagá is a city-state of the Colombian Republic, located in the Southwest
subregion of Antioquia Department.
COUNTRY
DEPARTAMENT
REGION
LOCATION
HEIGHT
DISTANCE
SURFACE
FOUNDED IN
POPULATION
DENSITY
GENTILICIO
APELATIVE
MAYOR
Live and Explote the
yacimientos Carnoniferos
naturales of the
distrit. Amagá- Sinifaná.
SITIO WEB
Colombia
Antioquia
Southwest
06°03′″N 75°41′″O
Coordenates: 06°03′″N 75°41′″O
(map)
1.250 msnm
36 Km of Medellín
85 Km²
1788
28.320 hab. (2002)
321 hab./km²
Amagaseña /o Amagacita .
Land of miners
Juan Carlos Amaya Cano.
El distrito explote this resource in
the generation of energy with the
construction of the Carboelectric
Factory
http://www.amagaantioquia.gov.co
GENERAL ASPECTS
ECOLOGY:
• In terms of the skills of exploitation of soil the region presents 5 of
7 kinds of soil in which hydrographic conditions is classified in its
Antioquia Department are interesting since in the region is asientas
two of the most important Colombian river basins: the hoya of the
Cauca River and the Atrato.
• The Cauca flows the Río San Juan, and the Atrato rivers section, El
Salado, Guaguando, roller, Arquia and El Penderisco. In terms of
forest resources, the region has limits with in Chocó and the towns
of Bethany, Andes and garden, a wealth of natural forests.
• At the level of mining resources, gold holdings have been made
especially in the municipality of titiribí, and currently main ore
exploited is coal, but you also has other minerals of exploitation
such as sand, gravel and clay. They have also identified other
potential such as silica, copper, zinc, gypsum and marble.
ECONOMY:
• Excels coffee as the economic element production key, in the
region. Other products that stand out at the regional level,
over the total departmental are: banana, cassava, sugar, sisal
and fruits.
• The region has an acceptable level of livestock, basically
dedicated to raising and fattening (fattening of cattle and
swine and poultry production years. It presents good areas of
natural forest and a renowned wealth mining level whose
main product is coal, with a major production.
• Rapid demand for coal and coke for the first ovens and the prospect of
extending short-term, forced mining companies to arrange the direct
exploitation of the coal mine. With the construction of the railroad of
Amagá is wanted to facilitate the exploitation of the coal mining area,
generating a high demand due to the ease of transportation from the mines
to Medellin.
• During the first half of this century, continued to be the railway the main
consumer of coal produced in Antioquia, in second term included industries
textiles and cement, mines reaching its final development when you start
the industrialization of the Valley of Aburrá. This production took place in
general and in Amagá in particular "coal rush", giving rise to the opening of
new mines in the whole, mines than in the majority of cases they opened
without any technique, giving rise to the loss of numerous human lives and
important sites. The fieb...
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This picture was taken at my Finca Medellin, Amaga, at the garden with my
cellphone (BlackBerry). With a very good sun and very colorful.
FLOWERS/PLANTS
Bougainvillea
Scientific Name: Bougainvillea Spectabilis
Common Name: Bugambilia
English Name: Bougainvillea
Order Name: Bougainvillea
• They are spiny shrub vines that measure 1 up to 12 m in height, and which grow on any terrain.
• They become entangled in other plants using his sharp barbs that have the tip cover a black waxy
substance.
• They are Evergreen in rainy areas plants all year round, or well deciduous in the station dry.
• The leaves are alternate, simple, and ovalado-acuminated-shaped, 4-12 cm long and 2-6 wide.
• The hermaphrodite flowers are axillary, conspicuous, tubular, 5-6 lobed short, usually white, arranged
in groups of 3, each inserted in a bract persistent papyraceous aspect and usually highly colored
white, yellow, pink, magenta, purple, red, Orange,.... The number of stamens varies from 5 to 10;
filaments short, soldiers at the base.
• The Bougainvillea in the wild is a common denizen of the Amazon rainforest in countries such as
Brazil, Ecuador, Peru where it lives amongst thick vegetation and in subtropical or tropical conditions.
• The Bougainvillea thrives in areas where the trees are close together and the plant can use these to
access the sunlight, but is hampered when it cannot adequately drain water, such as in swamps.
Orchid
Scientific Name: Orchidaceae
Common Name: Orquidea/ Cattleya
English Name: Orchid
Order Name: Orchid
• The Orchidaceae are a diverse and widespread family of flowering plants with colorful and fragrant
blooms, commonly known as the orchid family.
• Along with the Asteraceae they are one of the two largest families of flowering plants, with between
21,950 and 26,049 currently accepted species, found in 880 genera.
• Selecting which of the two families is larger is still under debate, as concrete numbers on such
enormous families are constantly in flux.
• Regardless, the number of orchid species equals more than twice the number of birds species, and
about four times the number of mammal species. The family also encompasses about 6–11% of all
seed plants.
• The largest genera are Bulbophyllum (2,000 species), Epidendrum (1,500 species), Dendrobium
(1,400 species) and Pleurothallis (1,000 species).
•
The family also includes Vanilla (the genus of the vanilla plant), Orchids (type genus), and many
commonly cultivated plants such as Phalaenopsis and Cattleya. Moreover, since the introduction of
tropical species in the 19th century, horticulturists have produced more than 100,000 hybrids and
cultivars.
Aves del Parariso
Scientific Name: Strelitzia Reginae
Common Name: Aves del Paraiso
English Name: Aves del Paraiso
Order Name: Aves del Paraiso
• The bird of paradise, scientific name (Strelitzia Reginae), is a species of Angiosperm herbaceous,
rhizomatous originating in South Africa that develops cultivated in gardens in tropical and
subtropical regions.
• Plant herbaceous shaped mata and leaves with long petioles, with an average height of 1.5 m and a
diameter 1.8 m.
• The leaves are alternate, pinnatinervadas and distichous. The flowers are hermaphrodite,
asymmetric, pollinated by birds, in groups cinciniformes protected primarily by large bracts several
side and often long-stalked.
• The perianth is formed by 6 petals distributed in two groups, the three external equal and free,
three inmates uneven and generally soldiers, one larger and folded arrow surrounding style.
• The gynoecium has 3 soldiers carpels, the ovary is inferior, trilocular, with numerous seminal
primordia. The fruit is a capsule valvicida that opens by 3 shells.
• Found in Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru.
• In Colombia to the North.
BIRDS
Green Jay
Scientific Name: Cyanocorax yncas
Common Name: Carriqui
English Name: Green Jay
Order Name: Green Jay
• Its found on United States
• On Manizales, Medellin
• His habitat is in Texas, uses open woodland and brushy mesquite thickets. In rest of range found in
humid forests.
• The Green Jays at the Northern Population are smaller at 25-29 cm (10-11.5 in).
• The South American birds at 29.5-34.3 cm (11.7-13.6 in).
• The weight is a range of 66 to 110 grams 2.3-3.9 oz.)
• The one year olds provide a significant amount of territorial defense, which aids parents, but they are
ejected from the family flock soon after the current year's nestlings have fledged.
• The Green Jay remains relatively unstudied. Previous research has been restricted to one detailed
study of the Colombian population's social system (Avarez 1975), and to the breeding of a Mexican
pair in captivity (Roles 1971).
• The southern Texas population has been studying of one long -term(1982, 1984, 1985, 1986).
Fundamental life history data are still changing.
Plumbeous Sierra-Finch
Scientific Name: Phrylgirus unicolor
Common Name: Pinzon
English Name: Plumbeous Sierra-Finch
Order Name: Plumbeous Sierra-Finch
• The Plumbeous Sierra Finch (Phrylgirus unicolor) is a species of bird in the Thraupidae family.
• Is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.
• Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland and pastureland.
• It measures 15 cm in length.
• The plumage of the male is uniformly grey.
• The female has back and the Crown with Brown stripes and clear to whitish belly.
• The northern birds have a rasping and unpleasant descending buzz of a song, while in Chile and
Argentina songs are soft and sweet.
• Likely there is more than one species involved here, but more research is necessary. Plumbeous SierraFinches are birds of high elevation in most of their range, seldom found below 3000m.
• Farther south in Patagonia the species is still restricted to the Andes, but there it may be found as low
as 500m in elevation.
• This sierra-finch is fond of open grassy flatlands or bogs adjacent to rocky slopes.
Barred Parakeet
Scientific Name: Bolborhynchus Lineola
Common Name: Parakeet
English Name: Barred Parakeet
Spanish Name: Perico
• The line or striped parakeet (Bolborhynchus Lineola) is a bird species of the parrots (Psittacidae)
family originally from the South of Mexico, the Northwest of Colombia, Venezuela, Panama and the
Andes of Peru.
• Its habitat includes forests and mountains to more than 2000 meters above sea level. Don't like
the cold, but they tolerate it well.
• They occupy part of their time on the ground, and sleep in the trees.
• They usually live in groups of 6 to 30, and even up to more than 150.
• Prefers running to flying, although they have a fast flight, characterized by a rapid wing-beats.
• They eat fruits, seeds (and germinated), and even insect larvae.
• They measure 17 cm long and weigh between 47 and 55 g; they are of a deep green color,
presenting black spots at the end of their feathers, that give them the appearance of being
scratched or listed.
• In this species, sexual dimorphism, despite what some believe, does not exist except in some color
mutation, which only females can present it.
• There are many mutations in these parrots: to...
Praying Mantis
Scientific Name: Mantodea
Common Name: Mantis Religiosa
English Name: Praying Mantis
Order Name: Praying Mantis
• Mantodea (or mantises, mantes) is an order of insects that contains over 2400
valid species and about 430 genera in 15 families worldwide in temperate and
tropical habitats. Most of the species are in the family Mantidae.
• The English common name for any species in the order is "praying mantis",
because of the typical "prayer-like" posture with folded fore-limbs, although the
egg corn "preying mantis" is sometimes used in reference to their predatory
habits. In Europe and other regions, the name "praying mantis" refers to only a
single species, Mantis Religiosa.
• The closest relatives of mantises are the termites and cockroaches (order
Blattodea).
• They are sometimes confused with phasmids (stick/leaf insects) and other
elongated insects such as grasshoppers and crickets.
• Bushes and tall grasses where there are lots of bugs mantis will thrive.
INSECTS
Beatle
Scientific Name: Coelocnemis Californicus
Common Name: Escarabajo
English Name: Beetle
Order Name: Beetle
• The darkling beetle is a common named assigned to various members of the family,
Tenebrionidae.
• Also known as stinkbugs, these beetles are dark brown to black with hardened front
wings that are not used in flight.
• The antennae, which arise from under a ridge near the eyes, have many segments and
are enlarged near the tip.
• Darkling beetles are about one inch in length.
• The larvae are a type of mealworm.
• They average an inch in length and have a tough, yellowish brown exoskeleton.
• Darkling beetles are found throughout the world in a wide range of habitat types.
• Mealworms dark places and can be found under rocks, and logs, in animal burrows and
in stored grains
Moth
Scientific Name: Lepidoptera
Common Name: Polilla
English Name: Moth
Order Name: Moth
• Lepidoptera (pron.: /ˌlɛpɨˈdɒptərə/ lep-i-DOP-tər-ə) is a large order of insects that
includes moths and butterflies (both called lepidopterans).
• It is one of the most widespread and widely recognizable insect orders in the world,
encompassing moths and the three super families' of butterflies, skipper butterflies ,
and moth-butterflies. The term was coined by Linnaeus in 1735 and is derived from
Ancient Greek λεπίδος (scale) and πτερόν (wing).
• Comprising an estimated 174,250 species, in 126 families and 46 super families, the
Lepidoptera show many variations of the basic body structure that have evolved to
gain advantages in lifestyle and distribution. Recent estimates suggest that the order
may have more species than earlier thought and is among the four most species
orders, along with the Hymenoptera, Diptera, and the Coleoptera.
• They are found in tree trunks flower visitants and patches of moisture, resting on
foliage. Some species gather in large groups on shrubs, trees, or near cave entrances.
Squirrel
Scientific Name: Tamiascurus Hudsonicus
Common Name: Ardilla
English Name: Red Squirrel
Order Name: Red squirrel
• The red squirrel (Tamiascurus Hudsonicus) is also called the chickaree or the pine squirrel.
• The three common names for this animal describe its general appearance, active vocalizing habits, and
preferred habitat.
• The scientific name, on the other hand, describes this species habit of making extensive caches of buried
food stuffs (tamias) and its predominantly high latitude, North American distribution (Hudson Bay).
• The red squirrel is found throughout much of Canada and the northern United States from the eastern
seaboard to Alaska.
• Its range extends south, down through the high altitude regions of the Rocky Mountains, well into
northern New Mexico.
• Their preferred ecosystems are cool, coniferous forests with dense, interlocking canopies and abundant
fungal resources.
• In the Rocky Mountains, red squirrels are especially abundant in Norway spruce and red pine forests,
while in Pennsylvania and New York, they prefer mixed coniferous and deciduous forest stands.
• They can also live in hedgerows, orchards, parks, and even buildings (red squirrels once made a nest in
my attic in fact, what a racket!).
• In Colombia found in cold places, in the tall trees.