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Isla Magdalena National Park is a protected area on Magdalena Island, Patagonia, Chile. Its rugged landscape, deep ravines and coastal cliffs make it an ideal environment for species such as Penguins, Cormorants, Sea Lions, and Southern River Otters.

Serranía de Macuira is a mountain range and protected area located in the middle of the La Guajira Desert on the Caribbean coast in Uribia, Colombia. Home to the indigenous Wayú, it covers most of the La Guajira Peninsula at the northernmost tip of South America.

Bahía Portete – Kaurrele National Natural Park is situated on the La Guajira Peninsula in the extreme north of Colombia, along the coast of the Caribbean Sea. It conserves important ecosystems that include sedimentary beds, seagrass meadows, coral formations, mangroves, beaches and rocky coastline.

Serra Furada State Park is located in the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina, protecting a densely forested mountain region that is part of the Atlantic Forest biome. The park is situated on the escarpment of the Serra Geral and covers parts of the Serra Geral and Botucatu geological formations.

Aparados da Serra National Park was created in 1959 as one of Brazil's first national parks. Located within the Serra Geral range in the south of Brazil, it contains rich biodiversity as the result of its diverse relief and of being situated at the intersection between coastal forests, grasslands and Araucaria moist forests.

São Joaquim National Park is located within the state of Santa Catarina in the south of Brazil. Located within the Serra Geral, the National Park is known for its alpine meadows and cloud forests. The terrain is very rugged and includes canyons, large caves and mountain slopes covered in native forest.

La Amistad International Park is a Transboundary Protected Area that extends along the border between Costa Rica and Panama, which, along with the surrounding Biosphere Reserves, preserves a major tract of tropical forest that is known for its extraordinary biodiversity and endemism.

The Talamancan Montane forests ecoregion is one of Central America's most intact habitats with high species diversity. The ecoregion covers a discontinuous area within the highlands of northwestern Costa Rica and western Panama, protected by numerous parks and reserves.

The Costa Rican páramo is a moist montane grassland and shrubland ecoregion found in the higher elevations of Costa Rica and western Panama within the Cordillera de Talamanca. It is one of Central America's most intact habitats, with high biological richness.

Itatiaia National Park, located in southeastern Brazil within the Serra da Mantiqueira range, protects important remnants of the endangered Atlantic Forest in its lower elevations and the unique flora of the high mountain plains in its upper elevations.