CAFÉ DEL ZAMARRITO - RESERVA YANACOCHA
CAFÉ DEL ZAMARRITO - RESERVA YANACOCHA
Café del Zamarrito is located in Fundación Jocotoco's Yanacocha Reserve, only 40 minutes away from Quito. Its name honors the Black-breasted Puffleg (Zamarrito Pechinegro in Spanish), emblematic bird of Quito.
Our cafeteria is located at the entrance of the reserve, in a two-floor house. On the ground floor you will find an interpretation centre, and in the second floor the restaurant.
You can see our menu clicking the blue arrow below. It is necessary to make a previous reservation to visit us.
For more information about Yanacocha Reserve, click here.
TRAIL NETWORK
Yanacocha Reserve is ideal for families because it has trails with diverse difficulty.
- Trocha Inca (6.5 km, easy): In this hike you will see the cloud forest, lanscapes of northwestern Ecuador, and the Guagua Pichincha Volcano. Near the km3 there is the hummingbird garden, an ideal place for photography.
- Andean Snipe (0.5 km, moderate-challenging): Here you will distinguish the change between the cloud forest to paramo, where there are Polylepis trees and grasslands. With good weather, it is possible to see the Guagua Pichincha Volcano.
- Masked Trogon (0.75km, easy): This is one of the three trails at the lower part of the reserve. An ideal place for those who want to immerse themselves into the cloud forest.
- Black- breasted Puffleg (0.3km, moderate): It has more humidity due to water flows that cross the trail.
- Spectacled Bear (1.2km, moderate): This trail is characterized for having more vegetation, and hidden between the trees, footprints of pumas and bears.
- Polylepis Forest (1km, moderate-challenging): Here you will find a second hummingbird garden with a viewpoint pointed to the Guagua Pichincha Volcano. You will also find old Polylepis trees.
- Horseshoe Trail (6.8km, moderate): This trails has gigantic leaves Gunneras, also known as "umbrellas for the poor", due to its characteristic shape and length of 2 m. This was an old route of the community used to extract coal from Polylepis logs. You will also find half-eaten Achupallas by bears.
