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Old Providence Natural National Park and Mc
Bean Lagoon, with their strategic geographic
location, offer visitors a chance to enjoy
pure air and nature at its best.
This 995-hectare protected natural national
park lies off the coast of Providencia Island,
with which it shares the beauty of Colombia’s
Caribbean scenery. Its little-touched
ecosystem is used for scientific research,
environmental education and recreational
purposes.
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Access |
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This
paradise can be reached by sea, from
Providencia Island, or by air, from Bogotá.
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Tourist attractions |
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 Old
Providence Natural National Park
The
park is divided into two sectors, Cayo
Cangrejo (Crab Cay) and los Tres Hermanos (the
three siblings), consisting of 90 land and 905
sea hectares. Outstanding features include
Iron Wood Hill, which rises to a height of 150
masl and a flat region dominated the lovely Mc
Bean mangrove swamp.
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 Park
plant and animal life
A
series of different trees make up the mangrove
swamps, the most noteworthy of which are cock
spurs, Pactá palms, resbalamonos, icacos,
coconut palms and rubber plants. Each one of
these trees shelters in its branches or trunk
different species of migratory birds, ants or
small animals typical of the region, like
lizards.
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 Activities
in Old Providence
The
park is open to the public until five in the
afternoon, when the last vessel sails from
Cayo Cangrejo. There the Natural National Park
Management Unit has fitted out a wooden
terrace where visitors can stop to rest, leave
their baggage and start the climb to the peak
of Iron Wood Hill along the interpretative
path. They can also dive around the cay and
enjoy the park’s ocean scenery with its
coral and fish.
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