We build park headquarters, visitor centers, cabins, trails, docks and civil works within Colombia’s National System of Protected Areas (SINAP) and in regions with environmental and social priority.
Roughly 10% of the world’s biodiversity lives in this country, which covers less than 1% of the Earth’s land surface. Sustaining that biodiversity, and the communities that live alongside it, requires infrastructure: stations for the rangers who look after the National Parks, centers where visitors learn about ecosystems, cabins for researchers who monitor wildlife and plants, trails that manage visitor flow, docks that support work on coasts and islands, and sanitation works for rural communities.
That infrastructure is built in fragile biomes and remote regions, alongside Indigenous, Afro-Colombian and rural communities. For those who fund conservation or sustainable development in Colombia, the question is not whether to build. It is who can build it well.
Verifiable figures, with no promotional rounding. Traceable to documented public contracts, closeout records and company archives.
KEY FIGURES · AS OF MAY 2026
the year we were founded: nearly four decades of continuous work in Colombia
National parks where we have built
Projects within SINAP
Departments of Colombia
Documented public contracts
Every project is carried out under an environmental management plan with specific measures to protect water resources, wildlife and plants, manage waste and control erosion. In fragile biomes we work with pressure-treated timber, materials suited to each biome and construction methods designed to minimize our footprint on the ecosystem.
Environmental impactWe hire workers from the communities where each project takes place, including Indigenous, Afro-Colombian and rural communities. We coordinate the work with prior consultation protocols when they apply, and with local and environmental authorities.
Social impactWhen a design can be improved before construction, we improve it. When the biome calls for a higher specification than the contract requires, we apply it. A network of key suppliers built over decades lets us guarantee materials that meet the exact specification and finishes that age well in local conditions.
Quality management
Logos of public contracting agencies and partners on completed, documented projects.
High Andes of Cauca · Puracé NNP
Colombian Caribbean · Bolívar
Caribbean mangrove · Magdalena
Darién rainforest · Chocó
Pacific oceanic island · Cauca
Andean forest · Boyacá
Photos from MARA projects in national parks and across Colombia. Each one opens its project page.
DIAN · Puerto Carreño officeOrinoquía · Puerto Carreño, Vichada
Galeras SanctuaryPáramo · Yacuanquer, Nariño
La Paya NNPPutumayo River · Puerto Leguízamo, Putumayo
Colombian Geological SurveyCAN campus · Bogotá
Isla de Salamanca · El Manglar trailCaribbean mangrove · Magdalena
Gorgona NNP · ecotourism infrastructurePacific oceanic island · Cauca
Tayrona NNPCaribbean tropical forest · Magdalena
Western Andes headquarters · MedellínMedellín · Antioquia
Isla Grande field stationCaribbean · Isla Grande, Bolívar
Los Estoraques Unique Natural AreaCatatumbo rock formations · Norte de Santander
Los Nevados NNPManizales headquarters · Caldas
Sierra de La Macarena NNPLa Macarena · Meta
Pisba NNPPisba páramo · Boyacá
Puracé NNPHigh Andes · Sotará, Cauca
Iguaque SanctuaryAndean forest · Boyacá
Corales del Rosario NNPCaribbean · Bolívar
Chingaza NNPPáramo · Cundinamarca
Gorgona NNPPacific Ocean island · Cauca
Los Katíos NNPDarién rainforest · Chocó
DIAN · Puerto Carreño officeOrinoquía · Puerto Carreño, Vichada
La Paya NNPPutumayo River · Puerto Leguízamo, Putumayo
Colombian Geological SurveyCAN campus · Bogotá
Isla de Salamanca · El Manglar trailCaribbean mangrove · Magdalena
Gorgona NNP · ecotourism infrastructurePacific oceanic island · CaucaMARA is a Colombian construction company founded in Tunja, Boyacá, in 1987.
Nearly four decades later, we are still doing what we have always loved: building in the places that demand the most. Conservation, rural development, post-conflict recovery and the care of natural areas are where our work makes the most sense.
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