The Colombian Rice Rat is a medium-sized rodent recorded in forests and nearby farmland and pasture in Colombia's Central Andes. It is terrestrial and nocturnal.
Its back is brownish gray and its belly ranges from gray to pale buff. The tail is uniformly dark, and the hind feet have whitish hairs.
It is terrestrial and nocturnal. Records come from montane cloud and secondary forests as well as cultivated land and pasture.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.