Utría National Natural Park, National park in Chocó, Colombia

Utría National Natural Park is a protected area on Colombia's Pacific coast where coral reefs, mangroves, and tropical rainforest meet the water's edge. The park includes rocky coves and beaches where multiple ecosystems join together.

Colombia created this protected area in 1987 to preserve the marine and land ecosystems along the northern Pacific coast. The designation aimed to safeguard the region's biological diversity for the future.

Emberá and Kuna communities are the ancestral inhabitants of Utría, and Emberá people still live inside the park alongside Afro-Colombian and mestizo settlers. Many coastal families depend on fishing, hunting and timber, and settlers clear land by burning for crops and cattle, practices the park's conservation work has to balance.

Visitors reach the park by flights to Bahía Solano or Nuquí or by boat from larger ports. The best time to visit is during drier months when conditions are better for exploring.

Two coral formations, Riscal de la Chola and Riscal de Playa Blanca, lie about 3 km offshore and are the only protected coral remnants on the South American Pacific coast. The park also holds at least four of Colombia's seven mangrove species, with mangle piñuelo dominating the sediment-built soils.