We operate from Tunja, Boyacá, in eastern Colombia. Nearly four decades of public works, sustainable infrastructure and construction within the National System of Protected Areas.
MARA Limitada was founded in Tunja, Boyacá, in November 1987. We started out building public civil works in eastern Colombia (rural roads, housing, schools and community infrastructure) and, over time, specialized in the places where environmental, social and logistical complexity is greatest: National Natural Parks, forest reserves, post-conflict areas and biodiversity corridors.
Today we work in at least thirteen of Colombia’s departments and combine two lines of work: conventional civil works for the public and private sectors, and specialized construction in protected natural areas for international cooperation agencies, environmental funds and Colombia’s environmental authorities.
We work in the high Andes, páramos, tropical rainforest, cloud forests, oceanic islands in the Pacific and the Caribbean, the Llanos foothills and the rock formations of Catatumbo. Each biome calls for its own logistics, materials and construction methods.
More than 18% of the work we have delivered in the past decade has taken place within Colombia’s National System of Protected Areas (SINAP), under rigorous environmental management plans and international cooperation standards.
It is a conscious, long-standing decision: we put the quality of the result ahead of the project margin. When a design can be improved before construction, we propose it. When a contracted material can be replaced with a higher-specification one, we use it.
58.3% of our permanent staff are women, compared with 8% in Colombia’s construction sector. More than 60% of our people have been with MARA for over three years. A stable team is part of what sustains the technical rigor of every project.
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