Atmospheric Water

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Horizontal rain, thick low cloud cover and fog are some of the main sources of water capture in the Páramo, due to the steep slopes of the mountain range, and the Pacific and steady easterly vientos alisios winds (Proyecto Paramo Andino, 2011).

The topography of the Páramo varies greatly and with it, clouds wrap into the slopes differentially. The effects of this are visible in superparamo plant life. In the lower superparamo, where humidity is greater and pressure higher, there is also richer diversity in vegetation cover; the dry superparamo sees a far lower plant diversity and ‘scanty vegetation’ (Cleef, 2008). As well as the vegetation capture of atmospheric water (fog and cloud), through key species such as frailejones, dense cloud cover across the Páramo also causes frequent rainfall. These feed into a water system that supplies the population of Bogota with [X% OF WATER NEEDS, CITE], through filtration into groundwater and eventually, the Quebrada Limas river.