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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] Before renovation, the building was an abandoned hotel, known as the Tequendama Falls Hotel (La ...
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 ]
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.
Map of the Bogotá River basin The Suárez River flows in the northern part of the Altiplano. Lake Tota, Colombia's largest lake is situated in the northeast of the Altiplano. The Tequendama Falls are the most impressive waterfalls of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, and are located in the southwest. Santa María del Lago wetland
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 ...
File:Frederic Edwin Church - The Falls of the Tequendama near Bogota, New Granada - Google Art Project.jpg Licensing This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art.
Houston Museum of Natural Science. This list of museums in Texas encompasses museums defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
The geography of Texas is diverse and large. Occupying about 7% of the total water and land area of the U.S., [1] it is the second largest state after Alaska, and is the southernmost part of the Great Plains, which end in the south against the folded Sierra Madre Oriental of Mexico.