Pacific coastal region of extreme south-western Costa Rica and Panama (including Coiba I and Cébaco I), northern Colombia along Caribbean coast (including Santa Marta area), and northern Venezuela north of R Orinoco (E, including Margarita I, to Paria Peninsula).
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).
Lance-tailed Manakin (Chiroxiphia lanceolata) [XC312325]
by GABRIEL LEITE from Department of Magdalena; Parque Nacional Natural Tayrona, Colombia (call)
Lance-tailed Manakin (Chiroxiphia lanceolata) [XC354198]
by Ross Gallardy from Tayrona National Park, Santa Marta, Magdalena. In the trail between el Cabo San Juan and Arrecifes., Colombia (song, leks sounds)
Subspecies
No subspecies.
Genus closely related to Antilophia. All members of present genus suggested by some as forming a superspecies. Has sometimes been treated as conspecific with Long-tailed Manakin (Chiroxiphia linearis) and Blue-backed Manakin (Chiroxiphia pareola).