The increasing anthropogenic pressure on natural resources have generated high rates of deforestation and habitat lost for many species both local and global scale. The transformation of the ecosystems and land cover have reached a critical point, whereby there’s a necessity to respond to these problems through strategies in higher scales addressed by international commitments. Ecological restoration comes up as an option to recover part of these ecosystems; however, the financial and technical resources for these practices are limited. Thus, we get to address the dilemma of what should be restored and where; for this reason, in the present study the areas with the highest priority for restoration were determined in the territory of the CAR jurisdiction, in Colombia, for which a multicriterial spatial analysis was used, taking into account as a basis the feasibility and the need to restore, based on socio-economic and ecological factors, ranging from land conflicts and viability of restoration, to ecosystem services. Thereby, it was concluded that 0.5% of the territory has a high priority, 2.7% moderate and 17.4% low, the paramo ecosystem and gallery forest being the ecosystems that need the highest priority.