Dataset

Sea turtles of Valle del Cauca - Bahía Málaga (aggregated per 1-degree cell)

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Original provider: Conservación Internacional - Pretoma Dataset credits: Data provider Colombia Originating data center Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT) Abstract: Bahía Málaga on the Pacific Coast of Colombia is a recently discovered foraging and developmental ground for green and hawksbill turtles. A total of 8 satellite tags have been deployed in a joint effort between Conservación Internacional Colombia, Crema Costa Rica, Ecomanglar, Consejo Comunitario Bahía Málaga La Plata, Fundación Tortugas del Mar, Programa de Conservación de Tortugas y Mamíferos Marinos, Parques Nacionales Naturales and Corporación Autónoma Regional del Valle del Cauca. This dataset is a summarized representation of the telemetry locations aggregated per species per 1-degree cell.

Citation
Heidemeyer M. 2024. Sea turtles of Valle del Cauca - Bahía Málaga. 1.0.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP and originated from Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT; http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?project_id=1164). https://doi.org/10.82144/c73c3344.
Published
October 08, 2025 at 02:56
License
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URL
http://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_1326_1deg
Archive
https://ipt.env.duke.edu/archive.do?r=zd_1326_1deg

Contacts

Maike Heidemeyer
PRETOMA and Turtle Island Restoration Network

OBIS-SEAMAP
Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University

Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool
seaturtle.org

2
total submitted occurrences
2
accepted occurrences
1
taxa
1
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
maximumDepthInMeters 2
100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 2
100.0%

Quality flags

The OBIS data quality flags are documented at https://github.com/iobis/obis-qc.

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 2
100.0%
ON_LAND 1
50.0%

Measurement types

DNA derived data