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Other Archaeological Sites
There are several more archaeological sites to see if you are not in a hurry, including La Parada , Quinchana , El Jabón , Naranjos and Quebradillas . Apart from its archaeological wealth, the region is also noted for its natural beauty, and features two spectacular waterfalls, Sal
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Casa Museo de Antonio Ricaurte
Antonio Ricaurte fought under Bolívar and is remembered for his act of self-sacrifice in the battle of San Mateo (near Caracas in Venezuela) in 1814. Defending an armory and closely encircled by the Spaniards, he let them in, then set fire to the gunpowder kegs and blew up everyone
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Puente de Occidente
This unusual 291m bridge over the Río Cauca is 5km east of town. When completed in 1895, it was one of the first suspension bridges in the Americas. José María Villa, its designer, was also involved in the creation of the Brooklyn Bridge in New York. Its a boring and hot 45-minute
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Museum
This museum is part of the Convento. Exhibits include religious art and pre-Columbian ceramics as well as a new section devoted to Afro-Caribbean contemporary pieces like wonderful Haitian paintings and African masks. You can visit the cell where San Pedro Claver lived and died, an
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Museo de Arte Moderno
Fills its space with rotating exhibitions from its larger permanent collection, which includes nationally renowned painters like Obregon Alejandro.
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Museo Histórico Policía
This surprisingly worthwhile museum not only gets you inside the lovely ex-HQ (built in 1923) of Bogotás police force, but gives you 45 minutes or so of contact time with English-speaking,18-year-old local guides who are serving a one-year compulsory service with the police (intere
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Johnny Cay Natural Regional Park
This protected 4-hectare coral islet sits about 1.5km north of San Andrés Town. Its covered with coconut groves and surrounded by a lovely, white-sand beach. The sunbathing is good, but be careful swimming here as there are dangerous currents. The cay can fill up far beyond capacit
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Museo Naval del Caribe
Opened in 1992 on the 500th anniversary of Columbus discovery of the New World, the Naval Museum occupies a great colonial building, which was once a Jesuit college. It features, for the most part, a grand collection of reconstructed cityscapes and boat models from throughout the c
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Palacio de Justicia
On the northern side of the plaza, this massive, rather styleless edifice serves as the seat of the Supreme Court. Its seen its troubles. The first court building, erected in 1921 on the corner of Calle 11 and Carrera 6, was burnt down by a mob during El Bogotazo in 1948. A modern
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Plazoleta del Chorro de Quevedo
No one agrees exactly where Bogotá was originally founded – some say by the Catedral Primada on the Plaza de Bolívar, others say here, in this wee plaza lined with cafes, a small white church and many boho street vendors (or hacky-sack players). Its a cute spot at any time of day,
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Santuario de Flora y Fauna Malpelo
The vast Santuario de Flora y Fauna Malpelo, the largest no-fishing zone in the Eastern Tropical Pacific, provides a critical habitat for threatened marine species. It is centered around Isla Malpelo, a tiny, remote Colombian island that has some of the best diving in the world. Th
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Museo del Siglo XIX
Nearby the observatory, the fun Museo del Siglo XIX offers a look inside something other than Spanish colonial Bogotá. The museum fills a former Repúblicano-style home built intentionally in English and French styles in two swoops (in 1850 and 1880). A visit takes in a sample of 19
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Santuario de Flora y Fauna Los Flamencos
This 700-hectare nature preserve is 25km from Riohacha in Camarones. Pink flamingos inhabit this tranquil area in great numbers: up to 10,000 in the wet season (September through to December), and bunches of up to 2000 can usually be seen in one of the four lagoons within the park.
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Monasterio de La Candelaria
This tiny hamlet set amid arid hills, 7km beyond Ráquira, is noted for the Monasterio de La Candelaria, founded in 1597 by Augustine monks and completed about 1660. Monks show you around the parts open to the public: through the chapel (note the 16th-century painting of the Virgen
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Museo del Oro Zenú
This museum is like a miniature version of Bogotás world-class gold museum, Museum del Oro. Though small, it offers a fascinating collection of the gold and pottery of the Zenú (also known as Sinú) people, who inhabited the region of the present-day departments of Bolívar, Córdoba,
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Parque Arví
Accessible by the fantastic new Cable Arví Metrocable (Linea L) from the Santo Domingo interchange (COP$4600 one way, 15 minutes), Parque Arví is a big chunk of mountain wilderness in Santa Elena that makes a great escape from the city. Inside the boundaries of the 17.61-sq-km rese
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Convento de los Franciscanos
Construction on this Franciscan monastery, the most dominating building in Monguí, began in 1694 and took 100 years to complete. The stunning red stone marvel is attached to the Basílica Menor de Nuestra Señora de Monguí, whose three-nave interior boasts a richly gilded main retabl
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Quinta de Bolívar
About 250m downhill to the west from Monserrate station, this lovely historic-home museum is set in a garden at the foot of the Cerro de Monserrate. The mansion was built in 1800 and donated to Simón Bolívar in 1820 in gratitude for his liberating services. Bolívar spent 423 days h
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Casa de Rafael Núñez
This charming mansion, just outside the walls of Las Bóvedas, was the home of the former president, lawyer and poet Rafael Núñez. He wrote the words of Colombias national anthem and was one of the authors of the constitution of 1886, which was in use (with some later changes) until
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Parque El Gallineral
San Gils showpiece is the mystical Parque El Gallineral, a 4-hectare park set on a triangle-shaped island between two arms of the Quebrada Curití and Río Fonce. Nearly all of the 1876 trees are covered with long silvery tendrils of moss called barbas de viejo (old mans beard), hang
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