CHRONICLE OF A ROUTE TO THE FOREST RESERVE OF YOTOCO

They were the 7 A.M. of a day Saturday, the temperature although she was fresh, announced a warm day where the sun would appear its splendor yet. In the crossing of routes of the city of Buga towards the Port of Good luck three travellers approached a vehicle, one of them, with foreigner aspect. Its name is Andrew James, who has been invited by the journalists Alonso Moreno Sáenz and Marco Antonio Reyes, to know a little which offers east country with its natural biodiversity to all its visitors. 

 It comes from Australia, distant country that in spite of the distance accidentally is brother with our region, to be on the same river basin of the Pacific. They were 20 minutes approximately that lead to us until the Forest Reserve of Yotoco, the temperature had descended a little, because we had ascended to about 1400 meters on the level of the sea. There it was waiting for Carlos to us Arturo Restrepo, an experienced civil employee of the CVC, who knows handspan handspan the Reserve.  

Hands to the work, were as well as we took our march, ascending of way decided by one of the footpaths. The temperature became but fresh, we are entering a subtropical forest where are several species of trees and vegetation that great amount of wild fauna lodges.  Suddenly our foreign friend stops the march, something is listened to. It seems to be the sound of an animal, to which immediately our guide goes to speak to us of the great amount of species of birds that like a permanent symphony, they did not let sing, that if without letting itself see, because the glasses of the trees so were elevated that they do of perfect refuge for those inhabitants of the forest. 

But the way is necessary to continue it, nevertheless the step is made but slow, our Australian friend feels that it needs I oxygenate, we are near the 1600 meters of height and he is not very usual for a person who comes from a country, where most of the territory is flat, without greater elevations, to face in equality of conditions our altitude where he is begun to feel the lack of I oxygenate For that reason stopped obligatory and another surprise for the lens of its camera, with a giant as opposed to its eyes, that is not indeed a monster, but one of the species of trees that there are within the reserve and whose height approaches  to the 100 meters.    After the forced photographic registry we advanced again, lead by the voice of our guide, who takes to us until the top where we watched a refrescante landscape wonderfully, with a great water mirror before us. It is Lago Calima, that almost obligatorily our visitor does again that, presses the button of his camera to register the images of this beautiful dam that was constructed for the energy generation, but that in addition today is tourist but important part of attractive the echo that it has this Colombian region.   Of return the reduction by the footpath is vertiginous, but care, already seems that a member of the group has remained back, something that makes back down the advance to discover another one of the natural curiosities that catches our friend of the outside and is as well as investigating between the Earth, Carlos Arturo Restrepo, our guide, shows a tiny animal to us of little two centimeters, that who go to believe, in spite of their dimension, can turn out to be very dangerous, because the poison that contains this species of frog, made it be used like a deadly weapon, in the arrows and darts which they used our native ones for the hunting and his defense.   

The route has left by mainly something clear in the travellers and special in our friend visitor of the outside and is that this region of Colombia is many right to make feel that east country visits, surrounding it in the natural magic of its charming nature very well.        

After ascending until the 1600 meters of height, we were with the panoramic one of Lago Calima, producing water dam of attractive great energy and for the ecoturismo and pratica of nautical and extreme sports. In the taking the guide of CVC the Carlos Arturo Restrepo, next to the journalists Alonso Moreno Saenz and Marco Antonio Reyes

A rich biodiversity of flora is in the Resrva. In photo one of the species of Fungi that reproduce in the stems of you hoist them

Great variety of you hoist are appraised in route of the footpath that takes until the high part but of the Forest Reserve of Yotoco

The giants that they protect to the forest, forming their great ceiling, rise with great imponencia as it is observed in rsgistro of one of the species of you hoist that there we found.

The Forest Reseva of Yotoco is a house for many species that live there on free way. In the photography a pair of monkeys that is part of the species that live there

From the natural Reserve of Yotoco, it is possible to be observed Lago Calima, one of the Lakes with fast winds but anywhere in the world

The color of the natural life is appraised its splendor within the Reserve yet, as it is possible to be appreciated in the image of this iguana

A food source for several of the families, represents the Lagoon of Sonso, thanks to the artisan fishing exerted by fishermen, like he was one of that we could be in our route, according to is appraised in the photography with his atarraya, next to Andrew James, the civil employee of CVC the Carlos Arturo Restrepo, who I act and Marco journalist as guide Antonio Reyes de Asii Press.

Fish in tarraya of the season were left the assistants to this route by the Lagoon of Sonso, after tasting an exquisite plate of fish, prepared by Nelly, one of the hosts, to pure narural wood fire. In addition to Nelly next to the visitors Alvaro Aguilar is of hat president of the Corporation Aguas of Sonso.

Several are the families who depend on the fishing that becomes in the Lagoon. At the moment there is an organization who reunites to 40 pesacdores and their families, well-known like Corporation Waters of Sonso and that works by the sustainable advantage of the same one, under the presidency of Don Alvaro Aguilar

Thanks to the leadership of people like Alvaro Aguilar, president of the Corporation Aguas of Sonso, have come obtaining objective, as it is the sustainable advantage of the potentialities of the Lagoon and the appropriation and sensibilizacion of the community with this ecosystem.

To stop to observe the birds within the Lagoon, gives the sensation to be as opposed to I authenticate peace mirror that calm and calm all our being.

Como lo expresa nuestro visitante Australinao Andrew James, sentado sobre un puente colgante en el Rio Guadalajara de la ciudad de Buga.