---
title: "Mazame de l'Équateur"
description: "Andinocervus rufinus — Mammifères. The little red brocket or swamp brocket (Andinocervus rufinus), also known as the Ecuador red brocket, is a small, little-studied deer native to the Andes of Colombia, Ecuador and northern Peru, where found in forest and páramo at altitudes between 1,400 and 3,600 metres (4,600 and 11,800 ft)."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/fr/animal/north-andean-red-brocket
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Mazame de l'Équateur

> Andinocervus rufinus — Mammifères. The little red brocket or swamp brocket (Andinocervus rufinus), also known as the Ecuador red brocket, is a small, little-studied deer native to the Andes of Colombia, Ecuador and northern Peru, where found in forest and páramo at altitudes between 1,400 and 3,600 metres (4,600 and 11,800 ft).

- Scientific name: *Andinocervus rufinus*
- Category: `mammals` (Mammifères)
- Habitats: `forest` (Forêt), `mountains` (Montagnes)
- iNaturalist observations: 129
- iNaturalist taxon: [1671080](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1671080)

## Names

- en: North Andean Red Brocket
- de: Roter Kleinspießhirsch
- es: Chivicabra
- fr: Mazame de l'Équateur

## Countries with the most observations

EC (65), CO (40), VE (7)

## Summary

The little red brocket or swamp brocket (Andinocervus rufinus), also known as the Ecuador red brocket, is a small, little-studied deer native to the Andes of Colombia, Ecuador and northern Peru, where found in forest and páramo at altitudes between 1,400 and 3,600 metres (4,600 and 11,800 ft). It is one of the smallest brocket deer. The coat is reddish, and the legs and crown are blackish. It was previously assigned to the genus Mazama, and as recently as 1999, some authorities included both the pygmy brocket (M. nana) and Merida brocket (M. bricenii) as subspecies of the little red brocket.
The little red brocket…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_red_brocket

## Photo

![Mazame de l'Équateur](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/north-andean-red-brocket/medium.jpg)

Photo: Cristian Antonio Calderón López · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/69173690

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/north-andean-red-brocket?lang=fr` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).