BOGOTA: AMAZING PARADISE

Bogota, officially Bogotá, Distrito Capital, abbreviated Bogotá, D. C.4 May (during the Spanish colonial period and from 1991 to 2000 called Santa Fe de Bogota) 6 is the capital of the Republic of Colombia and Cundinamarca.

Bogota is a first-order territorial entity in Colombia, with administrative powers that the law confers on Departamentos.8 It consists of 20 villages and is the epicenter of political, economic, administrative, industrial, artistic, cultural, sports and tourist country.

Museums and galleries

The city offers 58 museums and over 70 art galleries, among which the National Museum of Colombia, the acquis is divided into four collections: art, history, archeology and ethnography, and the Gold Museum, with 35,000 gold pieces and tumbaga, plus 30 thousand objects ceramic, stone and textiles, represents the largest collection of pre-Columbian gold in the world.

It also highlights the Botero Museum, where you can find, in addition to 123 works of Fernando Botero, 87 works by international artists, the Museum of Modern Art in Bogotá has a collection of graphic arts, industrial design and photography, the Museum of Colonial Art which brings together the most important collection of colonial art from Colombia

scientific museums are the Archeological Museum - Casa del Marqués de San Jorge which has about 30,000 pieces of pre-Columbian art, the Institute of Natural Sciences (UN), one of the four largest museums of natural sciences in Latin America, and Ingeominas Geological Museum has a collection specializing in Geology and Paleontology.

NATIONALS PARKS ECOLOGICAL

The system of national parks of Colombia is defined as the set of areas with exceptional values for the national natural heritage for the benefit of the people of the nation and because of its natural, cultural or historical reserves

Natural National Park Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta

National Natural Park Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta is one of the protected areas system of National Parks of Colombia and the second oldest, founded in 1964. It is located between the departments of La Guajira, Magdalena and Cesar, in the mountain range of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta.

Declared by UNESCO as a Biosphere Reserve and World Heritage Site in 1979, is considered a unique place in the world due to isolation from the Andes and placed its highest peak (5775 m) at only 42 km the sea. It contains all climatic zones found in Colombian territory and different biomes that make up the forest, mountain forest and the Andean highlands.

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Sierra de la Macarena

The Sierra de la Macarena is a Colombian region, located in the department of Meta, in the Andean foothills in the Amazon rainforest, is the meeting point of ecosystems Andean, Amazonian and orinocense. Inhabited by peasants heirs recent colonization process, motivated by the violent expulsion of peasants from mid-twentieth century, La Macarena is recognized by both biotic and physical importance by the many conflicts that cross.

The Serrania de la Macarena has become internationally known for the Caño Cristales, released, among others, by journalist and explorer Colombian Andres Hurtado Garcia. The saw also has petroglyphs of ancient cultures (Petroglyphs Narrows I and II, in the Rio Guayabero). There are also huge waterfalls, as the Waterfall Caño Canoas, the Yarumales jump, Salto del Mico, Soplaculos and more, difficult to see on foot through the rough terrain.

 

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PRINCIPAL RIVERS OF COLOMBIA

CARIBE: RIO ATRATO
Swamps and marshes along the depression between the mountains of Darien and Jumps to W and the Abibe to E. Includes the delta of the Atrato, their flood plains and the Leon River. Complex Tumarado swamps, Perancho, the Honda, the Rica.

CARIBE: CANAL DEL DIQUE

It extends to the north of the Sierra de Maria and flows into the sea in the bays of Cartagena and barbecues. Spread over depression which is on the southern border of the departments of Bolívar and Atlántico, which is irrigated by the waters of the Rio Magdalena.

ORINOQUIA: RIO META  
Flood plains in winter and madreviejas

CARIBE: RIO SINU

Set of swamps, marshes and floodplains open to the sea through the mouth of the Sinu River Delta Tinajones. Limited to S by Betancí Swamp, the W by old pipes and Tiger until Lorica. When E is limited by the Water pipe Prietas to N Cienaga Grande.

CARIBE:BAJO MAGDALENA 

At north   of the mouth of the Rio Cauca, including Magdalena River   floodplains and large permanent wetlands

SOME PROSPECTS FOR THEIR SITES

PEOPLE SPOKE ABOUT COLOMBIA

Some people we spoke to sities they visited and this was what they said:
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HISTORY

When the Spanish arrived in the fifteenth century three families inhabited Colombian territory. Chibcha culture located in the highlands and cold areas of the Midwest and in the "Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta". The Caribbean, located on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean and Arwac, in the regions of the Amazon, Putumayo and Caquetá.

The Chibcha family, one of the most numerous and more highly intellectual, had an advanced knowledge of mathematics, used a calendar that enabled him to manage agriculture and celebrate religious holidays and used hieroglyphic writing. Due to its dispersal formed a unique people.

Within the family stood Chibcha Muisca and Tairona groups. The basis of the social organization of these groups was the clan or extended family. Several clans formed a tribe whose leader was the chief. The union of tribes called confederation, was commanded by Zipa or Zaque with administrative policies and religious functions.

within all these cultures can say The Republic of Colombia is a relatively new nation, has fewer than 200 year history as a republic and like the rest of America, its origins as a state back to just a little more than five centuries. However, despite its short existence as a nation, several significant events that have occurred, in this section you will find information on the history of Colombia starting from pre-Columbian times to the present.

AMAZING COLOMBIA

Colombia is a country of different thermal floors so its diverse wildlife is really below some of its natural resources that become enjoyable to people so cheerful company such as Colombians.