The Black-and-gold Tanager is endemic to Colombia. It inhabits cloud forest in the western Andes and at the northern end of the Central Andes, and its plumage combines black, orange, yellow, and blue.
The body is black, with an orange breast, yellow belly, and blue shoulder patches.
It inhabits cloud forest in the western Andes and at the northern end of the Central Andes in Colombia. It is seen in the middle and upper forest levels and sometimes joins mixed-species flocks.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.