🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Red-footed tortoise live?

Chelonoidis carbonarius has 3,477 records in 38 countries and territories, from 1863 to 2026. Most records come from Colombia.

AnimaliaChordataTestudinesTestudinidaeChelonoidis

When it is recorded

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Peak month: April. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
Colombia 1,943
Brazil 728
Bolivia 101
French Guiana 74
US Virgin Islands 72
Saint Barthélemy 65
Panama 48
Venezuela 47
Suriname 42
United States 42
St Vincent & the Grenadines 33
Saint Martin 32
Peru 32
Barbados 30
Anguilla 29
Paraguay 26
Guyana 20
Antigua & Barbuda 18
British Virgin Islands 14
Grenada 12
Martinique 9
Bonaire 8
Guadeloupe 7
Argentina 6
Puerto Rico 6
Aruba 4
Dominica 4
Sint Maarten 4
Curaçao 3
Ecuador 3
Nicaragua 3
Trinidad & Tobago 3
Germany 2
Spain 2
Indonesia 2
Bahamas 1
Israel 1
Saint Lucia 1

Related animals

Others in the family Testudinidae.

Hermann's tortoise
Hermann's tortoise
41,336 records
common tortoise
common tortoise
18,952 records
Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.