The Vita River or Bita River (Spanish:RÃÂo Bita) is a river in Colombia, a tributary of the Orinoco. In 2018 its whole river basin was desclared a wetland of international significance under the Ramsar Convention, the largest Ramsar site in Colombia and the first in the world to cover a whole river basin.
The Vita River is in length, it rises as a stream originating in spring in the middle of the Colombian Llanos, near to the town of La Primavera in the Department of Vichada. It then has a meandering couse through the Llanos, creating lagoons and beaches, until it joins the Orinoco, close to Puerto Carreño. The Bita is relatively untouched by humans and there are no artificial obstructions hindering the natural flow of the river. The area protected under the Ramsar designation is more than , the largest of Colombia's eleven Ramsar sites.