Tags: Mountain Range.
The Serranía de San Lucas is a forested massif in the Bolívar Department of northern Colombia that reaches heights of 2600m above sea level. It is part of the Magdalena-Urabá moist forests ecoregion with a rainforest ecology that includes large monkey and bird populations.It is a ‘forest reserve’ that has been recommended for protection but has been opened to mining by the Colombian government as the mountains have large deposits of gold emeralds nickel and mercury.