It is endemic to northern Venezuela where it is known from the Venezuelan Coastal Range and northeastern part of the Cordillera de Mérida.

Its type locality is in the Henri Pittier National Park.

[1] After the eggs hatch, the adult male frog carries the tadpoles to water.

[1] The IUCN classifies this frog as least concern of extinction, though it does face some threats in parts of its range, principally habitat loss in favor of agriculture and tourism but also fires and pollution.

Some specimens have tested positive for the causitive pathogen, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis.