title: El Salitre (wetland)
text: # El Salitre (wetland)
  
  El Salitre is a small wetland, one of the wetlands of Bogotá. It is located within Salitre Park, close to Salitre Mágico, an amusement park north of Simón Bolívar Park in the locality Barrios Unidos of the Colombian capital Bogotá. The area of El Salitre is 6.4 hectares (16 acres).
  
  ## Flora and fauna
  
  ### Birds
  
  In El Salitre, 81 species of birds have been recorded.
  
  