Northern Colombia (Santa Marta Mts), also Sierra de Perijá (Colombia-western Venezuela border); and Andes from western Venezuela (southern from north-eastern Trujillo) and Colombia south to Bolivia (south to Santa Cruz).
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).
Red-crested Cotinga (Ampelion rubrocristatus) [XC210291]
by Niels Krabbe from Reserva Bosque Hanne, Utuana, Loja, Ecuador (call)
Red-crested Cotinga (Ampelion rubrocristatus) [XC248606]
by John V. Moore from Pichincha: Loma Yanayacu Polylepis forest, Volc\u00e1n Pichincha, Ecuador (song)