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The Tequendama Falls (Spanish: Salto del Tequendama) is a 132 metres (433 ft) high waterfall of the Bogotá River, located 32 kilometres (20 mi) southwest of Bogotá in the municipality of Soacha. Named after the adjacent settlement of Tequendama, it holds historical significance as one of Colombia's earliest permanent settlements. [1]
Tequendama Falls Hotel before renovations Tequendama Falls depicted in an 1854 painting. The Tequendama Falls Museum of Biodiversity and Culture (Spanish: Casa Museo Salto de Tequendama Biodiversidad y Cultura) is a museum and mansion in San Antonio del Tequendama, Colombia. The museum overlooks Tequendama Falls on the Bogotá River. [1]
Español: La leyenda muisca, cuenta que el gran lago de la sabana de Bogotá fue desocupado por un golpe del baston del dios Bochica en estas rocas de donde nacio el salto del tequendama y la cultura chibcha.
Marroquín Castle Salto del Tequendama House. Marroquín Castle, Chía: A tall woman dressed in black, called "La Zancona", is one of several ghosts claimed to inhabit the location. [57] Hacienda Yerbabuena, Chía: Haunted by a traveller who vanishes in the dormitories and a moaning woman in the praying room. [58]
Map of the Bogotá River, Tequendama is situated on the right bank between Soacha and Tequendama Falls. During the time before the Spanish conquest of the Muisca, the central highlands of the Colombian Andes (Altiplano Cundiboyacense) were populated first by prehistorical indigenous groups, then by people from the Herrera Period, and finally by the Muisca.
Aguazuque is a pre-Columbian archaeological site located in the western part of the municipality Soacha, close to the municipalities Mosquera and San Antonio del Tequendama in Cundinamarca, Colombia. It exists of evidences of human settlement of hunter-gatherers and in the ultimate phase primitive farmers .
It is considered a cultural tourist site in Antioquia and is named after Tequendama Falls, another Colombian waterfall located in the department of Cundinamarca. Tequendamita has a jump of 20 meters in height [2] and its source is a stream in the village Chuscala Don Diego. The waterfall is surrounded by many attractions, restaurants, and ...
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