Abstract
Despite its prominent topographic relief of up to 8 km and its location in the tropics, where erosional processes are intense, the Santa Marta Sierra Nevada (SMSN), in northern Colombia has undergone moderate uplift rates at ~0,1-0,3 mm/yr since at least 15 Ma, associated to strike-slip tectonics along the southern Caribbean Margin. This documentation has relied on bedrock and detrital th…