Located in the high-altitude Andes are wetlands, known as bofedales, that cover approximately 0.4% of the landscape in Peru. At a regional scale, they represent a significant carbon storage, but are also an ideal environment for methanogenesis due to anaerobic conditions. This study attempts to link microbial community composition and abundance to methane flux in two bofedales. The range of data collected includes: methane flux, water quality and microbial communities.