Hay Festival Cartagena 2025

Andrés Cota Hiriart is a Mexican biologist, zoologist and writer who has written books including Faunologías, El ajolote. Biología del anfibio más sobresaliente del mundo, Fieras familiares and Fieras interiores, and has come close to all kinds of animals in their natural habitats, travelling to some amazing places around the world, like the Galapagos, Borneo, Sulawesi and the island of Guadalupe. At this event, at which he will share images and excerpts from his books, Cota will focus on a wonderful creature from his native Mexico: the axolotl, a little amphibian with an impressive capacity for regeneration. He talks to María del Rosario Osorio Fortich.

Thanks to the work of their guardians, the river Atrato (Colombia) and lake Titicaca (Bolivia-Perú) are two of the very few that are registered as the subjects of rights, a tool that grants considerable power to to the Colombian Mayury Mosquera and the Peruvian Soraya Poma when it comes to defending their natural habitats and their tributaries. This, in turn, strengthens their communities and furthers work on development and environmental responsibility plans. For Mosquera and Poma, their rivers and lakes are everything, and so their lives and their work are fully aimed at giving back what they have received from the Atrato and the Titicaca. In conversation with Andrés Bermúdez Liévano.

All events on Sunday, January 1st will be free for people with ID from the department of Bolívar. Complimentary tickets can be requested —up to capacity— at the box office of the Hay Festival (Centro de Convenciones) showing your identification on the same day the event is taking place.