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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]
Tequendama is a preceramic and ceramic archaeological site located southeast of Soacha, Cundinamarca, Colombia, a couple of kilometers east of Tequendama Falls. It consists of multiple evidences of late Pleistocene to middle Holocene population of the Bogotá savanna , the high plateau in the Colombian Andes.
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.
Etymology: Tequendama Location of Tequendama Province in Colombia Coordinates: 4°37′58″N 74°21′08″W / 4.63278°N 74.35222°W / 4.63278; -74
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]
The extended region is known as the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, meaning "high plateau of Cundinamarca and Boyacá". The Bogotá River crosses the savanna and forms the Tequendama Falls (Salto del Tequendama) to the southwest. Tributary rivers form valleys where villages lie and whose economy is based on agriculture, livestock, and artisan production.
This list of notable waterfalls of the world is sorted by continent, then country, then province, state or territory. A waterfall is included if it has an existing article specifically for it on Wikipedia, and it is at least 15 m (50 ft) high, or the falls have some historical significance based on multiple reliable references.