Background The Seaflower Biosphere Reserve is located in the south-west Caribbean. With an area of about 300,000 km2, it encompasses Colombia's only oceanic department, the Archipelago of San Andres, Old Providence and Santa Catalina. The Biosphere Reserve includes three small, inhabited islands–San Andres, Old Providence and Santa Catalina–and several uninhabited cays with a total insular area of 57 km2. The marine area
