The Bogotá savanna is a montane savanna, located in the southwestern part of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense in the center of Colombia. The Bogotá savanna has an extent of 4,251.6 square kilometres (1,641.6 sq mi) and an average altitude of 2,650 metres (8,690 ft). The savanna is situated in the Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes.
The Bogotá savanna near the city of Bogotá
Hills of Sesquilé in the northeast of the Bogotá savanna
The climber's paradise Rocas de Suesca form the northeastern boundary of the Bogotá savanna
The Bogotá River separating Cota, Cundinamarca (top) from Bogotá
A savanna or savannah is a mixed woodland-grassland ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close. The open canopy allows sufficient light to reach the ground to support an unbroken herbaceous layer consisting primarily of grasses. According to Britannica, there exists four savanna forms; savanna woodland where trees and shrubs form a light canopy, tree savanna with scattered trees and shrubs, shrub savanna with distributed shrubs, and grass savanna where trees and shrubs are mostly nonexistent.
A tree savanna in Tanzania, East Africa (Tarangire National Park)
A grass savannah in South Africa (Kruger National Park)
A savanna woodland in Northern Australia demonstrating the regular tree spacing characteristic of some savannas.
Bushfire in Kakadu National Park, Australia
