TOP 10 MOST BEATIFUL PLACES TO VISIT IN COLOMBIA by Marìa Sofìa Salas https://padlet.com/msalas55/pvag37oxbt2q Hecho con un frenesí creativo en-us 2018-04-20 19:11:17 UTC 2023-05-27 11:41:16 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Hotsun.png NATIONAL CHICAMOCHA PARK msalas55 https://padlet.com/msalas55/pvag37oxbt2q/wish/253972104 Is an Ecological park, located in  50 km from the city of Bucaramanga, Santander The site is a tourist attraction due to is spectacular landscape and the variety of outdoor activities that it offers such as paragliding, spelunking, bushwalking, camping, fishing, kayaking, rafting, mountain climbing, etc.
The park features an aerial tramway that crosses the Chicamocha Canyon, in addition, there are parking spaces, viewing decks, and plenty of trails. 
]]> 2018-04-20 19:15:06 UTC https://padlet.com/msalas55/pvag37oxbt2q/wish/253972104 SAN ANDRES ISLAND msalas55 https://padlet.com/msalas55/pvag37oxbt2q/wish/253974740 San Andrés is a Colombian coral island in the Caribbean Sea. 
San Andrés, in the southern group of islands, is the largest of the department. The official languages of the department are Creole, Spanish, and English
In 2000, it was declared a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, named “Seaflower Biosphere Reserve”,
Among the tourist attractions of the island are:

·  North End, is known locally as the center of San Andres, which concentrates the hotel zone, commercial, banking and government.

· Isleña House Museum (Casa Museo isleña), which was created by the natives in order to acquaint visitors with the culture and customs of the inhabitants.

· The Cocoplumbay, a beach located in the town of San Luis, right in front of Cayo Rocoso, because of its shallow depth, with its white sand and blue sea green, is a favorite spot for tourists.
La Piscinita, natural formation that built the sea in the coral rock that surrounds the island.
]]> 2018-04-20 19:22:56 UTC https://padlet.com/msalas55/pvag37oxbt2q/wish/253974740 SALT CATHEDRAL OF ZIPAQUIRA msalas55 https://padlet.com/msalas55/pvag37oxbt2q/wish/253995700 The Salt Cathedral of Zipaquirá is an underground Roman Catholic church built within the tunnels of a salt mine 200 metres (220 yd) underground in a halite mountain near the town of Zipaquirá, in Cundinamarca, Colombia. It is a tourist destination and place of pilgrimage in the country. The temple at the bottom has three sections, representing the birth, life, and death of Jesus. The icons, ornaments and architectural details are hand carved in the halite rock.


The Salt Cathedral is considered one of the most notable achievements of Colombian architecture,[3] being described as a "Jewel of Modern Architecture".[4] The cathedral represents a valuable cultural, environmental and religious patrimony for the Colombian people.[5]

The cathedral is a functioning church that receives as many as 3,000 visitors on Sundays, but it has no bishop and therefore no official status as a cathedral in Catholicism. 
]]> 2018-04-20 21:11:10 UTC https://padlet.com/msalas55/pvag37oxbt2q/wish/253995700 NATIONAL COFFEE PARK msalas55 https://padlet.com/msalas55/pvag37oxbt2q/wish/253996222 The National Coffee Park is a theme park located in the department of Quindío, Colombia, 4 km south-west of the town of Montenegro and 11 km west of the departmental capital city Armenia. The park can be reached from a cable car, offers attractions orchid animatronics colorful, global coffee garden, a roller coaster, food stalls based on coffee, Colombian folk architecture, and other attractions, totaling 22 attractions at the end of 2009. The park was founded in 1995 by the National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia (La Federación Nacional de Cafeteros de Colombia) and the Departmental Committee of Coffee Growers of Colombia. ]]> 2018-04-20 21:14:55 UTC https://padlet.com/msalas55/pvag37oxbt2q/wish/253996222 NEVADO DEL RUIZ msalas55 https://padlet.com/msalas55/pvag37oxbt2q/wish/253997640 The Nevado del Ruiz  also known as La Mesa de Herveo, or Kumanday in the language of the local pre-Columbian indigenous people,is a volcano located on the border of the departments of Caldas and Tolima in Colombia, about 129 kilometers ,west of the capital city Bogotá. It is a stratovolcano, composed of many layers of lava alternating with hardened volcanic ash and other pyroclastic rocks.

Nevado del Ruiz is one of several stratovolcanoes within Los Nevados National Natural Park, a national park located west of Bogotá in the centre of the Colombian Andes. The park is a popular tourist destination and contains several tourist shelters. The slopes of the volcano are used for winter sports, and nearby Lake Otún offers trout fishing.

]]> 2018-04-20 21:26:49 UTC https://padlet.com/msalas55/pvag37oxbt2q/wish/253997640 CERRO DE MONSERRATE msalas55 https://padlet.com/msalas55/pvag37oxbt2q/wish/253998293 Monserrate   is a mountain that dominates the city center of Bogotá, the capital city of Colombia. It rises to 3,152 metres above the sea level, where there is a church with a shrine, devoted to El Señor Caído

The hill, already considered sacred in pre-Columbian times when the area was inhabited by the indigenous Muisca, is a pilgrim destination, as well as a major tourist attraction. In addition to the church, the summit contains restaurants, cafeteria, souvenir shops and many smaller tourist facilities. Monserrate can be accessed by aerial tramway, a funicular or by climbing, the preferred way of pilgrims

 

]]> 2018-04-20 21:32:37 UTC https://padlet.com/msalas55/pvag37oxbt2q/wish/253998293 LAKE GUATAVITA msalas55 https://padlet.com/msalas55/pvag37oxbt2q/wish/253998653 Lake Guatavita is located in the Cordillera Oriental of the Colombian Andes in the municipality of Sesquilé, in the Almeidas Province, Cundinamarca department of Colombia, 57 kilometres north-east of Bogotá, capital of Colombia.
Lake Guatavita was reputedly one of the sacred lakes of the Muisca, and a ritual conducted there is widely thought to be the basis for the legend of El Dorado, "the golden one". The legend says the lake is where the Muisca celebrated a ritual in which the zipa was covered in gold dust, then venturing out into the water on a ceremonial raft made of rushes, he dived into the waters, washing off the gold. Afterward, trinkets, jewelry, and other precious offerings were thrown into the waters by worshipers. A few artifacts of gold and silver found at bottom hold proof to this claim; however, to date, attempts to drain the lake or salvage the gold have yielded no more than these.

]]> 2018-04-20 21:36:07 UTC https://padlet.com/msalas55/pvag37oxbt2q/wish/253998653 LOST CITY msalas55 https://padlet.com/msalas55/pvag37oxbt2q/wish/253998912
Ciudad Perdida is the archaeological site of an ancient city in Colombia's Sierra Nevada. It is believed to have been founded about 800 CE, some 650 years earlier than Machu Picchu. This location is also known as Teyuna and Buritaca.
The hike is about 42 km of walking in total, and requires a good level of fitness. The hike includes a number of river crossings and steep climbs and descents.
Ciudad Perdida was discovered in 1972, when a group of local treasure looters found a series of stone steps rising up the mountainside and followed them to an abandoned city which they named "Green Hell" or "Wide Set". When gold figurines and ceramic urns from this city began to appear in the local black market, archaeologists headed by the director of the Instituto Colombiano de Antropologia reached the site in 1976 and completed reconstruction between 1976-1982. 

]]> 2018-04-20 21:38:52 UTC https://padlet.com/msalas55/pvag37oxbt2q/wish/253998912 SIMON BOLIVAR PARK msalas55 https://padlet.com/msalas55/pvag37oxbt2q/wish/253999280
The Simón Bolívar Metropolitan Park, best known as the Simón Bolívar Park, is a greenspace and entertainment and sports complex located in the middle of the city of Bogotá, Colombia.
The park is named after the Latin American Liberator Simón Bolívar. The park is located in the locality of Teusaquillo and is managed by the District Institute of Recreation and Sport .The park is one of the most popular urban parksin the city of Bogotá.
The park features a lake in which people can rent paddle boats and a large space for concerts and events capable of holding 140.000 people.
The Simón Bolívar Park is in fact a system of adjacent greenspaces. Its extension is over 970 acres (3.9 km2), bigger than the Central Park extension in New York. At the present time it is considered the "lung of the city" due to its central location and because of its size and its vegetation.

The park's Events Plaza is the venue of most of the concerts of international singers when they perform in Bogota, since 2005 concerts were banned in El Campin Stadium so the only place to held big concerts was the park. Since 2012, the Stadium can be used again for concerts one a month. The Events Plaza have a maximum capacity for 100,000 people.

]]> 2018-04-20 21:42:35 UTC https://padlet.com/msalas55/pvag37oxbt2q/wish/253999280 TATACOA DESERT msalas55 https://padlet.com/msalas55/pvag37oxbt2q/wish/253999882
The Tatacoa Desert is the second largest arid zone in Colombia after the Guajira Peninsula. It occupies 330 square kilometers of land. This semiarid region is located north of Huila Department, 38 km from the city of Neiva in Colombia and 15 km (9 mi) from Natagaima in Tolima. It is a rich deposit of fossils and is a great tourist destination. The Tatacoa Desert has two distinctive colors: ocher in the area of Cuzco and gray in the Los Hoyos area.
In addition to its geography, its atmospheric conditions are good for astronomy. Tatacoa has little pollution or noise, attracting tourists who stay there to enjoy the silence, scenery and tranquility.


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