HABITAT AND DISTRIBUTION: Puya ochroleuca is known from two towns located in surrounding areas to the Cerro de Las Palomas, which is part of the Ilamado Paramo de Sonson, in the Central Mountain range to the south of Antioquia.
This " moor " is in the highland called Rionegro-Sonson, with heights from 2700 to 3300 m alt., with mountain topography strongly dissected with an approximate axis of the dividing of the rivers Rio Magdalena and Rio Cauca (Cornare 1994). According to Hermelin (1991) the landscape of the region is of Mesozoic-Cretaceous origin with litologia dominated by granodioritas of the batolito antioqueno; the soils are superficial, poor in nutrition, derived from volcanic ash, accumulated on granitic, black and open sandstone rocks (Cornare 1994). The climate corresponds with that of the areas of forests that have very humid mountain lows and mountain rain (bmh-MB, bp-M), with temperature annual medians of 12ēC to 17° C and 2500 to 4000 mm of annual precipitation (Spinal 1985). —SeeBetancur & Callejas 1997
