Soon they were out of the mountains and over the Magdalena Valley.

The Perez family, with army approval, helped create the organizations in the 1960s and 70's in the Magdalena Valley in central Colombia.

The Chestnut-bellied Hummingbird distribution appears to be restricted to the dryer parts of the Magdalena Valley, Colombia, with a core known range in the Chicamocha, Suarez and Chucurí valleys.

Meaning "condor's nest", it was used in pre-Columbian times by the natives of the Magdalena Valley to refer to the nearby highlands.

The relationship between the traffickers and the paramilitary ended when the drug lord Pablo Escobar began recruiting leftist rebels to work for him outside the Magdalena Valley, a death squad leader said in March.

While the paramilitary groups deny any human rights abuses, saying their actions were taken in self-defense, they speak with pride of having "cleaned up" the Magdalena Valley during 11 years of armed struggle.

It is found in Panama and the Magdalena Valley of Colombia.

The region extends from easternmost Panama to the lower Magdalena Valley of Colombia, and along the Pacific coast of Colombia and Ecuador to the northwestern corner of Peru.

P. f. motacilla, from the Magdalena Valley in Colombia, is similar to semicervina, but the buff area of the tail is paler, and upperparts more olive.

Cacicus cela vitellinus - Panama Canal Zone to the base of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and the central Magdalena Valley of Colombia.