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The Rock of Guatapé (Spanish: El Peñón de Guatapé) [ 1 ][ 2 ] (Tahamí language: Mojarrá) is a landmark inselberg in Colombia. It is located in the town and municipality of Guatapé, Antioquia. [ 3 ] It is also known as The Stone of El Peñol, or simply La Piedra or El Peñol (La Piedra de El Peñol), [ 2 ] as the town of El Peñol, which ...
3,830 km 2 (1,480 sq mi) Established. 1964. Governing body. SINAP. The Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (English: Snow-Covered Mountain Range of Saint Martha) is an isolated mountain range in northern Colombia, separate from the Andes range that runs through the north of the country. Reaching an elevation of 5,700 m (18,700 ft) just 42 km (26 mi ...
[1] [2] However, a Latinobarómetro survey from the same year found that 10.4% of Colombian respondents self-identified as indigenous. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The most recent estimation of the number of indigenous peoples of Colombia places it at around 9.5% of the population and has been growing since an all-time low of 1965, where it was estimated only 1 ...
The Muisca (also called Chibcha) are an indigenous people and culture of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, Colombia, that formed the Muisca Confederation before the Spanish conquest. The people spoke Muysccubun, a language of the Chibchan language family, also called Muysca and Mosca. [ 3 ]
Colombia, [b] officially the Republic of Colombia, [c] is a country primarily located in South America with insular regions in North America.The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuela to the east and northeast, Brazil to the southeast, Ecuador and Peru to the south and southwest, the Pacific Ocean to the west, and Panama to the northwest.
As of 2018, there are nine World Heritage Sites in Colombia, including six cultural sites, two natural sites and one mixed site. [2] The first site in Colombia, Port, Fortresses and Group of Monuments, Cartagena, was inscribed on the list at the 8th Session of the World Heritage Committee, held in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1984. [3]
San Andrés is the largest of the island group in the Department of the Archipelago of San Andrés, Providence and Saint Catherine. San Andrés is located in the Caribbean Sea, about 750 km (470 mi) northwest of the coast of Colombia. [4] The island is 13 km (8.1 mi) [20] in length and 3 km (1.9 mi) in width. [21]
Cartagena (/ ˌkɑːrtəˈheɪnə / KAR-tə-HAY-nə), known since the colonial era as Cartagena de Indias (Spanish: [kaɾtaˈxena ðe ˈindjas] ⓘ), is a city and one of the major ports on the northern coast of Colombia in the Caribbean Coast Region, along the Caribbean sea. Cartagena's past role as a link in the route to the West Indies ...