The Botanical Garden

The Botanical Garden José Celestino Mutis is located on Avenida Calle 63 No. 68-95 (Between Avenue and Calle Rojas 68). The ticket office and visitor entrance is on Calle 63 Avenida. The Garden has no parking, for this reason we suggest using the closest public parking located in the Bowling of Salitre, adjacent to the main entrance of the Botanical Garden on Avenida Calle 63, this offers 1 hour free parking service (Applies only when they enter once in the day) the rate of ¼ of an hour is worth $ 1,100 dollars and the fee for full day is $ 8,000. Hours: Monday to Friday 8:00 am to 5:00 p.m. Saturdays, Sundays and holidays from 9:00 a.m. to 5: 00 p.m. Note that the last guided tour leaves at 3:30 pm and the Tropicarium is open until 5: 00 pm Visitor entrance fee (Resolution No. 094 of 2004) $ 1,000 * children between 4 and 12 years $ 2,000 * over 12 years

1. Children up to 3 years and adults aged 60 years (featuring DC and / or Passport Vital Box Office)

2. Public or private institutions that work on behalf of disabled people (physical, sensory or cognitive)

3. Persons working with the Bank projects that are carnetizadas.

4. By exchange of services or products, prior authorization of the Director of the Institution

5. Chaperons for every thirty (30) students.

6. The exemptions do not apply to educational and cultural events organized by the Botanical Garden as part of their projects. Photo and Video: Students, teachers, community organizations, families and tourists can enter or video cameras for academic activities and / or tourism. All visitors must register their teams with the monitoring company. To make photographic or video work for commercial purposes, applicants should send a letter requesting the authorization and cancel the corresponding value in the Garden box office. Services and Security: The Botanical Garden has a permanent surveillance service, nursery, cafeteria, restrooms, sales of publications and guide map of the Botanical Garden. Before visiting the Garden are invited to browse the link Plan and schedule your visit and special programs for groups.

7. If you come alone, with friends or with your family: Many people take about three hours touring the Garden, not accompanied by a guide-interpreter environment. But keep in mind that each visitor explores it differently, according to their interests, needs and expectations.

8. Here are some collections, environments and areas of interest that we recommend you visit: Cryptogamic System is one of the three gardens that illustrate the classification systematic and evolutionary processes in plants. The Garden is the oldest plants on earth. No seeds, they reproduce by spores and are known as cryptogams.

9. In this group are called ferns and horsetails. Located in a lush rendering of high Andean forest, has a beautiful waterfall where you can relax with the music of water. Collection or Palmetum Palmas is very appealing to visitors, with 588 individuals of palms belonging to 50 species, among which stands the Quindío wax palm, which was declared National Tree of Colombia (Law 61 of September 16 1985), which is the tallest palm in the world, measuring up to 60 meters. Its leaves are a symbol of freedom, and live more than 2600 meters above sea level.

10. The Maloca is a typical ancestral community used by Amazon Indians. Sacred place that represents the center of knowledge and the universe in its entirety. It was built by Indians in 1997 Uitotos intercultural educational purposes, research, and ethnobotany. The Maloca allows the recovery of traditions and knowledge of our ancestors and enriches the efforts made every day around the Garden in environmental protection.

11. Circuit Tropicarium Greenhouse or construction began after 1968, following a special construction standards that simulate natural environments that represent the Colombian flora warm and mild climate. Consists of 6 rooms connected by corridors of transition, including: collection of orchids and bromeliads, ornamental plants, economic botany, tropical humid, rain forest and xerophytic environment. Covers the most important ecosystems in Colombia and knows our National Flower trianae Cattleya Orchid, and Orchid Flower Bogota Odontoglossum luteopurpureum Lindl.

12. The Cloud Forest recreates an Andean forest in an area of 3,127 m2, with small slopes. The diversity represented here is widely distributed among different types of trees, shrubs and vines, creating a semi-closed environment that facilitates the adaptation of plants according to their requirements. It is considered one of the most mysterious and magical areas of the garden and is ideal for birdwatching in the morning and late afternoon.

13. Herbal displays about 100 species of plants, including medicinal, aromatic and condiment. Delight in the aromas and know the plants that are used by natural medicine to relieve fever, such as laxatives, diuretics, laxatives, cold remedies, analgesics, refreshing, tonic, stimulating blood circulation, abortifacients, antibiotics, deworming, hallucinogens, antiparasitic, among other uses. The knowledge and use of medicinal and aromatic plants is part of the cultural heritage of the peoples represented in the customs and practices of farmers, indigenous doctors, shamans and curacas. We recommend not to use them without the accompaniment of an expert in the field, which has the training and knowledge to prepare them in cooking, tea, poultice, tincture, syrup or poultice. Remember that some plants can be very toxic and highly dangerous.

14. The Collection of Roses or Rose has 73 varieties of hybrid roses and ornamentals. Roses abound herbaceous and shrub size but there are also some varieties of climbing roses or vines. Due to its wide variety of colors and shapes, ornamental roses are considered par excellence.

15. And if you want to feel natural in an Andean forest, you have to visit and have fun in a wonderful oak forest with abundant oak replica of litter on the ground. Finally, discover the Gymnosperms Systematic where you can find the Ginkgo Biloba is considered a living fossil to retain archaic character of the remote times when forests were abundant in the Carboniferous. Recognize its medicinal properties as a vasodilator and its effects on the circulatory system. Originates in the Far East (China, Japan). If you want to book a visit without the accompaniment of a guide-interpreter environment you can buy, at the box office, a Garden Guide Map. We also have information panels in the main collections, which you will find important information about the Garden and its collections.