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Archaeological sites in Colombia are numerous and diverse, including findings and archaeological excavations that have taken place in the area now covered by the Republic of Colombia. The archaeological finds and features cover all periods since the paleolithic , representing different aspects of the various cultures of ancient precolumbian ...
Chiribiquete National Park – "The Maloca of the Jaguar" was added to the list in 2018 as Colombia's most recent inscription. [3] Qhapaq Ñan, Andean Road System, is a transnational site and is shared with five other countries. Colombia has a further 13 sites on its tentative list. The country has served on the World Heritage Committee three ...
Ciudad Perdida (Spanish for "lost city"; also known as Teyuna and Buritaca-200 [1]) is the archaeological site of an ancient city in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta of Colombia, within the jurisdiction of the municipality of Santa Marta. This city is believed to have been founded about 800 AD.
The San Agustín Archaeological Park (Spanish: Parque Arqueológico de San Agustín) is a large archaeological area located near the town of San Agustín in Huila Department in Colombia. The park contains the largest collection of religious monuments and megalithic sculptures in Latin America and is considered the world's largest necropolis .
Tulcán Hill) is an Indigenous pyramid [1] in Popayán, Colombia. [2] The pyramid was constructed in the pre-Columbian period, approximately between 1600–500 BCE; the period which is now known as "Late Chieftain Societies". On this pyramid a statue dedicated to the Conquistador Sebastián de Belalcázar existed from 1937 to 2020. [3]
Castle of San Fernando de Bocachica, built over the ruins of the old castle Blueprint of the first Castle, the San Luis de Bocachica in Cartagena de Indias Aerial view of the castle. The Castle of San Luis de Bocachica, also called Fort St. Louis, [1] was a military fortress that defended Cartagena, Colombia. The Spanish built it in the 17th ...
Map showing ancient pre-Columbian cultures in northern South America. Tairona or Tayrona was a Pre-Columbian culture of Colombia, which consisted in a group of chiefdoms in the region of Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in present-day Cesar, Magdalena and La Guajira Departments of Colombia, South America, which goes back at least to the 1st century AD and had significant demographic growth around ...
Postcard showing ruins of the Great Mosque of Djenne in Mali, ca. 1900. The Great Mosque of Djenne fell into disrepair after the conquest of Djenne by Seku Amadu in 1818. It was rebuilt in 1907. Parts of the World Heritage Site of Timbuktu were destroyed after the Battle of Gao in 2012, despite condemnation by UNESCO, the OIC, Mali, and France.