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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]
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 ]
Museo de Insectos de la Universidad de Costa Rica (MIUCR) (Museum of Insects at The University of Costa Rica) [1] Museo de Numismática (Costa Rica) (Numismatic Museum) Museo de Zoología - Escuela de Biología (Zoology Museum), University of Costa Rica; Museo del Colegio Superior de Señoritas (Women's Education and History Museum), Colegio ...
The Costa Rican part of the site was initially listed independently in 1983, the part in Panama was added in 1990. [5] [6] Cocos Island National Park Puntarenas: 1997 820bis; ix, x (natural) The island, around 550 kilometres (340 mi) off the mainland, is located at the meeting point of the Equatorial Counter Current and other currents. It ...
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.
The Centro Costarricense de la Ciencia y la Cultura (Costa Rican Center of Science and Culture) is a science and culture museum complex in Costa Rica. Located in a fortress-like building that once served as the central penitentiary between 1910 and 1979, the center was inaugurated in 1994.
The stone spheres are regarded as a national symbol [2] and part of the cultural ethos of Costa Rica, therefore it is common to see them installed in government buildings, such as in the under construction building of the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica, where in October 2019, seven spheres lent by the Museo Nacional de Costa Rica were ...
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