To demonstrate emerging research in the páramo, we present the great value of an experimental site established since 2010 by iDRHICA, University of Cuenca, Ecuador. This eco-hydrological observatory (7.5 km2) is located the in southern Ecuadorian Andes (Fig. 4) in an altitudinal range between 3,505 and 3,900 m a.s.l. Two types of soils, Histosols (20%) and Andosols (80%) mainly covered by grassland and cushion plants respectively dominate the catchment. This observatory is densely monitored, hydro-meteorologically: a weather station, a spatially distributed network of tilting bucket rain gauges and a nested system of discharge stations. In addition, a laser disdrometer and an Eddy covariance flux tower have been placed at the study site. Water samples are collected for stable isotope, carbon, nutrient and element concentration analyses, periodically and during intensive campaigns in streams, precipitation and soils. Being an intensive and highly specialized research site, the findings built a strong ecohydrological knowledge, which can be synthesized as follow: Fog and drizzle common in the region (Buytaert et al., 2006c) accounted for an additional amount of 15% of precipitation (Padrón et al., 2015). Interception losses represented a high percentage of precipitation and the canopy storage capacity of grassland was approximately 2 mm (Ochoa‐Sánchez et al., 2018). The key role of air moisture variation in the control of the hydrological system was as well reported by Carrillo-Rojas et al. (2019). Streamflow showed to be dominated by water inflows from the riparian zone (mainly occupied by Histosols soils) year-round and the contribution from hillslopes (where primarily Andosols soils are located) was relevant during the wet season (Correa et al., 2017; Mosquera et al., 2016a). The age of water from the streams varies between 2-9 months (Mosquera et al., 2016b) and decreased when connectivity to the hillslopes existed (Correa et al., 2017). Rainfall-runoff event-based sampling showed slower connectivity with hillslopes in the lower in relation with the upper sub-catchments (Correa et al., 2018). The dynamic storage of the catchment increases with rainfall intensity, while the passive storage with larger wetlands extent. Less than 10% of passive storage is hydrologically active in the water balance (Lazo et al., 2019). The carbon source behavior of the páramo was evidenced by a net positive exchange of CO2 (Carrillo-Rojas et al., 2019). In a nearby comparable catchment, increasing of DOC concentrations while decreasing soil moisture were reported and land-use and land cover identified as key predictors of soil water DOC concentrations (Pesántez et al., 2018). Figure 4