Andes in north, eastern and south-eastern Bolivia (La Paz, Cochabamba, Santa Cruz, Chuquisaca, Tarija) and north-western Argentina (Jujuy, Salta, Catamarca, Tucumán, La Rioja).
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).
Yungas Dove (Leptotila megalura) [XC770063]
by id from Salta: Quebrada de la Horqueta 1, Argentina (song)
Yungas Dove (Leptotila megalura) [XC48682]
by Bernabe Lopez-Lanus from Serrania de Acambuco (camino al Pozo Tuyunti), Tartagal, Salta, Argentina (song)
Subspecies
Probably forms superspecies with White-tipped Dove (Leptotila verreauxi), although the two overlap widely in north-western Argentina. Southern populations sometimes awarded separate subspecies, saturata, on basis of stronger ruddy tinge.