One hundred humpback whales have made their "pilgrimage" to the warm year of the Pacific Ocean off Colombia to mate, give birth and raise their calves, according to experts said Sunday following the migration of these animals.
Some of them marching with their young, big as them, for Gorgon Juanchaco, Malaga Bay and Bahia Solano, who are Colombian maritime territories that host this kind of mammal migration, which attracts thousands of visitors.
The Malaga "is one of the sites of increased reproduction of the species", said today by phone expert Nancy Murillo, administrator of the National Park Urambo Malaga Bay.
It is a book with 47 094-kilometer (137.34 miles square nautical) located northwest of the port of Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca department, which was created in August 2010 to preserve the ecosystem that promotes migration.
The expert explained that this park may be the birthplace of 22 percent of the total breeding humpback whales, another name for this species, which reach the Colombian Pacific.
The humpback nearly a hundred have come to the waters of Colombia have done in less than two weeks, in groups of five to six copies, and are as advanced of the 2011 season of migration, which may involve some 800 copies.
Those responsible for the park, whose operational headquarters is in the coastal Ladrilleros place, formally launched the humpback whale season, which draws up the country's southwest coast 5,000 to 6,000 visitors.
"We want these people understand the importance of the protected area, to make a sighting responsible, they retain the territory to keep coming to our shores and avoid that extinct," said Murillo.
The expert noted that the species "Megaptera novaengliae" scientific name for humpback or jorobana, is also subject to high international pressure that the threat, so it is also necessary to maintain areas as Urambo Malaga Bay, which receives 20 percent of individuals that migrate to Colombia.
The whales travel 7,000 to 8,000 kilometers, from the Patagonian Channels and the Antarctic and Pacific waters remain in Colombia for four months until November.
It is a stay that may leave as a result some 200 new samples, which measured 4.5 meters at birth and weigh 700 to 1,000 kilos, against 18 meters in length and 40-ton humpback whale reaches adulthood.
Calves are nursed for about 12 months, and enter the second year, when its length is now about nine feet, leaving their mothers.
Some of them marching with their young, big as them, for Gorgon Juanchaco, Malaga Bay and Bahia Solano, who are Colombian maritime territories that host this kind of mammal migration, which attracts thousands of visitors.
The Malaga "is one of the sites of increased reproduction of the species", said today by phone expert Nancy Murillo, administrator of the National Park Urambo Malaga Bay.
It is a book with 47 094-kilometer (137.34 miles square nautical) located northwest of the port of Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca department, which was created in August 2010 to preserve the ecosystem that promotes migration.
The expert explained that this park may be the birthplace of 22 percent of the total breeding humpback whales, another name for this species, which reach the Colombian Pacific.
The humpback nearly a hundred have come to the waters of Colombia have done in less than two weeks, in groups of five to six copies, and are as advanced of the 2011 season of migration, which may involve some 800 copies.
Those responsible for the park, whose operational headquarters is in the coastal Ladrilleros place, formally launched the humpback whale season, which draws up the country's southwest coast 5,000 to 6,000 visitors.
"We want these people understand the importance of the protected area, to make a sighting responsible, they retain the territory to keep coming to our shores and avoid that extinct," said Murillo.
The expert noted that the species "Megaptera novaengliae" scientific name for humpback or jorobana, is also subject to high international pressure that the threat, so it is also necessary to maintain areas as Urambo Malaga Bay, which receives 20 percent of individuals that migrate to Colombia.
The whales travel 7,000 to 8,000 kilometers, from the Patagonian Channels and the Antarctic and Pacific waters remain in Colombia for four months until November.
It is a stay that may leave as a result some 200 new samples, which measured 4.5 meters at birth and weigh 700 to 1,000 kilos, against 18 meters in length and 40-ton humpback whale reaches adulthood.
Calves are nursed for about 12 months, and enter the second year, when its length is now about nine feet, leaving their mothers.
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