Musichi is a protected area that has great potential for the development of different activities within the ecotourism and contemplation. It enjoys a wide variety of biotic resources and ecosystem of great value to the department of La Guajira, such as mangrove forests and thickets subxerofíticos characteristic of this part of the department that is located in the municipality of Manaure.

This protected area, is a suitable for ecotourism and bird watching thanks to the wide variety of resident and migratory species of dry forest that frequent the place permanently. Each of these environmental values, Musichi make the habitat of a large population of pink flamingos (Phoenicopterus ruber ruber) and the most favorable for the species in the country, so the Regional Autonomous Corporations from other jurisdictions Corpoguajira made available to specimens from the illegal trafficking of wildlife to be rehabilitated and later released in that area.

The main objective of this protected area, It is to preserve the habitat to ensure the maintenance of the populations of pink flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber ruber) living there, as well as natural spaces that are used by a large group of migratory birds from the northern hemisphere and occupy that territory temporarily. For that, is being protected has a booth monitoring and control features cutting edge technology tools that allow the guardians area of ​​environment and peace, promote conservation, exercise governance and promote ecotourism in the area.

Likewise, Musichi has a great diversity wildlife, live in it 15 amphibian species, 52 species of reptiles, 22 mammal species and 242 potentially present species of birds, equivalent to 13% of birds recorded in Colombia, the 65% of distributed in the lowlands of the country and 61% of all registered in the Caribbean region of Colombia.

In addition, it is a place of temporary residence, feeding and resting a large contingent of migratory birds which move along the edges of the marshes, lagoons and estuaries. In Musichi there is also a high representation of waterfowl, which together correspond to 29% of bird species in Colombia and 42% migratory waterfowl that visit the country.