Córdoba

This guide to the Córdoba wetland in Bogotá traces its shrinking under decades of construction landfill back to a lawsuit filed in 2000 by a handful of neighbors, including Mauricio Castaño and Luz María Gómez, who fought to stop new building on what remained and kept checking the city's compliance afterward. You'll hear how engineers later piped water back in from the Santa Barbara creek, dredged the mud by hand, and built a wooden boardwalk while illegal sewage connections kept leaking into the water. More bird species have been recorded here than in any other Bogotá wetland.