La Corota Island Flora Sanctuary, Flora and fauna sanctuary on La Cocha Lake, Colombia

La Corota Island Flora Sanctuary covers a 12-hectare island in the northern part of Lake La Cocha, plus about 4 hectares of surrounding totora reeds. Its gently undulating volcanic terrain, with lava flows and volcanic mud, rises to 2,830 metres and is covered by dense secondary Andean forest up to 20 metres tall, with abundant bromeliads, orchids and anturios.

The Quillasinga inhabited the Lake La Cocha region about 500 years ago, some 600 of them living around a Dominican mission near present-day El Encano. Colombia declared the island a flora and fauna sanctuary on June 6, 1977, protecting the smallest area in its national parks system. The island has no permanent residents apart from national parks staff.

The Quillasinga lived around the lake some 500 years ago, about 600 people near a Dominican mission close to today's El Encano. They still hold the island in great respect as a sacred site of their culture. The island itself has no inhabitants apart from national parks staff.

The island lies at 2,830 m in the Laguna de la Cocha, where the average temperature is 11 °C and about 2,000 mm of rain falls yearly, mostly from May to July and October to January. Two trails cross it: the 550 m El Quiche and the 200 m La Totora. The ground is uneven and often muddy, so wear footwear with grip.

The sanctuary covers the whole island plus four hectares of surrounding water, and its two trails are short: El Quiche runs 550 metres and La Totora 200 metres. In 2018 the reserve recorded 28,000 individual visitors, making it one of Colombia's most visited national parks despite being its smallest protected area.