This contribution presents the plant-communities characterized in the trayect between La Plata (Huila) and the crater of the Puracé volcano. The methodology followed in this study is that proposed in the Zurich-Montpellier school (BRAUN-BLANQUET, 1979). The profile of vegetation includs plant-communities of the jungle-type which are pluri-stratified on Ecuatorial and sub-Andean life zones and plantcommunities with a single stratification (upper Paramo belt). In the characterization of the

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... communities described was taken of the physiognomy (the structure as an expression of abiotic conditions). Dates about plant-density in the arboreal stratum and preliminary characteristics of the soil in some of the places inventaried also are provided.En esta contribución se caracterizan las comunidades vegetales que se establecen en el trayecto entre La Plata (Huila) y el cráter del volcán Puracé. </s [...]