Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela.
Extreme eastern Colombia (Arauca, Vichada south to northern Vaupés), southern and eastern Venezuela (south of R Orinoco), the Guianas, northern and central Amazonian Brazil (east to Amapá and, south of Amazon, R Juruá east to western Pará and south to southern Mato Grosso), north-eastern Peru (Loreto) and extreme north-eastern Bolivia (SerranÃa de Huanchaca); single record from south-eastern Ecuador.
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).
Pompadour Cotinga (Xipholena punicea) [XC518833]
by Mauricio \u00c1lvarez-Rebolledo (Colecci\u00f3n de Sonidos Ambientales - Instituto Humboldt) from Roura, Montagne des Chevaux, French Guiana (call)
Pompadour Cotinga (Xipholena punicea) [XC754755]
by JAYRSON ARAUJO DE OLIVEIRA from Sinop, Cascalheiras - Mato Grosso, Brazil (song)