Cloud forests play a fundamental role in the maintenance and quality of water, in addition to generating habitats for animals. The structure and characteristic of these forests makes them "hot-spots" of biodiversity and centers of endemism. In this study the alpha diversity of a plant community was calculated, and it was evaluated in a very general way, whether the height influences the richness of species in a Cloud Forest in the Darién province. A lower species richness was expected as the height increased. For this, the diversity of trees, shrubs, palms and arboreal ferns was calculated in 0.4 ha and the species richness was evaluated by plot in two altitudinal levels. It was found that the diversity of species is very high compared to other cloud forests of the tropics, in addition, the species showed no tendencies of inequality and dominance. No influence of height on species richness was observed (p = 0.96). However, when we analyze the composition of species by zones, we find that they only share 2sp with each other. What makes us think that height does not clearly explain the species richness in Chucantí and that could be explained by other environmental factors.