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This interactive tool showcases the outcomes of the Important Plant Areas (IPAs) methodology in the Northern Tropical Andes, a significant approach that identifies critical regions for plant conservation. Focusing on the Espeletiinae subtribe (Asteraceae), like flag, umbrella, and keystone species, it utilizes distribution data for 138 taxa from 5,560 georeferenced records. The study area was divided into 10 × 10 km Units of Analysis. We have pinpointed 11 high-priority IPAs (red), 58 medium-priority IPAs (orange), and 143 low-priority IPAs (yellow). By interacting with the layers menu in the upper left corner, users can toggle layers, thereby enhancing the visualization of IPAs and their overlap with protected areas, and by clicking on each IPA, you can display the correlation between Human-Modification Landscapes (GHM) and ecosystems. We mark areas with no correlation as NA. This tool is practical and user-friendly for conservationists, botanists, researchers, and environmental organizations.