´A rugged wilderness, called by the Spanish Páramo (moors), submitted to the continuous battering of tremendous storms, where the surface begins to move everywhere as soon as the snow melts; a revolting region, day and night ravaged by furious winds and hails, wrapped in clouds and dim light, almost never caressed by a warm sun or a cloudless sky. A rocky inhospitable area, almost without trees because the elements do not have any mercy with them, and covered with lichens and grasses, an area in which a frequent snowfall hinders the passage of travelers.´ That is how explorer and botanist Alexander von Humboldt describes Parc Nacional Caja near Cuenca. He was there between 1815 and 1817. Von Humboldt was the one who inspired young men like Charles Darwin, Alfred Wallace and Henri Bates to undertake their
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