title: Unellez Botanical Garden
text: # Unellez Botanical Garden
  
  The Unellez Botanical Garden (Spanish: Jardín Botánico de la Unellez) Is a botanical garden and a zoo of 14 ha of extension, located inside the facilities of the National Experimental University of the Llanos Ezequiel Zamora in Barinas, Venezuela. It is a member of the BGCI, being its international identification code as a botanical institution as well as s It is located to the northwest of the city of Barinas, at the foot of the Mountain range of the $ andes; To a height of 200 msnm and presenting an average annual temperature of 28 °C.
  
  It was created in 1979, This garden also includes a zoo with an area of 14 hectares of which 4 ha correspond to a lagoon
  
  The collections of plants of the botanical garden, are grouped like:
  
  * Arboretum (34 spp.)
  * Plants of economic interest (50 spp.)
  * Plants of medicinal interest
  * Fodder plants
  * Palmetum (13 spp.)
  * Ornamental plants (100 spp.)
  * There is a germplasm bank with a mean conservation capacity that contains 84 accessions, representing 73 species (1994 figures).
  