Zoo
Refugio Silvestre Yanacocha
🇪🇨 Ecuador
🦒 Zoo or wildlife park, Ecuador 31 spp. present
1.459° S 77.986° W
🎟️ Visit
Essentials
Entrance
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Tourism
Medium
Species present
31
speciesOpened
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Size
Medium
What visitors say
🦒 Animals in captivity
LC
Jaguarundi
Herpailurus yagouaroundi
Before you go
Where is Refugio Silvestre Yanacocha?
Ecuador
Refugio Silvestre Yanacocha is a zoo or wildlife park in Ecuador. Its coordinates are 1.459° S, 77.986° W. The nearest national park in our atlas is Yasuní National Park, about 194 km away.
What animals can you see at Refugio Silvestre Yanacocha?
31 species
Citizen-science photos record 31 species at Refugio Silvestre Yanacocha, including White-throated Toucan, Spectacled Owl, Mountain Lion, Capybara and Jaguarundi. Those with a page of their own in our atlas show the odds of seeing them in the wild.
Where can you see the animals of Refugio Silvestre Yanacocha in the wild?
White-throated Toucan: Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve
Some of the animals photographed at Refugio Silvestre Yanacocha also live in the parks and cities we cover: White-throated Toucan (about 60% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve), Spectacled Owl (about 10% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in Darién National Park) and Mountain Lion (about 60% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in Torres del Paine National Park).
When did Refugio Silvestre Yanacocha open and how big is it?
4.0 ha
Refugio Silvestre Yanacocha, a zoo or wildlife park in Ecuador, covers about 4.0 ha, according to Wikidata and OpenStreetMap. Today 31 species are photographed there.
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Sources: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · iNaturalist observers