The Tropicario
Glass domes.
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Colombia's largest botanical garden, named after the Spanish scientist José Celestino Mutis, who led a famous eighteenth-century expedition to study the region's plants. It specialises in plants of the Andes and high forests, from rare trees to tiny flowers. You walk through gardens representing Colombia's habitats: humid Andean forest, the «páramo» with its strange plants like woolly candles, rose and medicinal-herb gardens, and small lakes full of birds. Its highlight is the «Tropicario», a set of huge glass domes recreating tropical forest, dry desert and island habitats inside, described as the largest of its kind in South America. There is also a large orchid collection. The garden is spacious, quiet and very family-friendly, loveliest in the morning. It is closed on Mondays, and since July 2026 entry includes the Tropicario.
Glass domes.
Candle-like plants.
A large collection.
Carrera 68 with Calle 63, west Bogotá
Yes: since late July 2026 one ticket covers the garden and the Tropicario, COP 38,000 for foreigners.