🇨🇴 Colombia · Archaeological wonder
Araracuara, Colombia
Araracuara is a remote settlement (centro poblado) in the municipality of Solano, Caquetá Department, Colombia, situated on the north bank of the Caquetá River in the western Amazon basin.
🇨🇴 Colombia · Archaeological wonder
Casa de Nariño
The Casa de Nariño (Spanish pronunciation: ['ka sa ðe 'na ri]), literally the House of Nariño, is the official residence and principal workplace of the President of Colombia.
🇨🇴 Colombia · Archaeological wonder
Archaeology Museum, Pasca
The Archaeology Museum of Pasca (Spanish: Museo Arqueológico de Pasca) is an archaeological museum located in Pasca, Colombia.
🇨🇴 Colombia · Archaeological wonder
Puerto Hormiga archaeological site
The Puerto Hormiga archaeological site is located in the Bolivar department, Colombia, in the lower Magdalena basin near the Caribbean coast. It dates to 4000-3100 BC.
🇨🇴 Colombia · Archaeological wonder
Santa María la Antigua del Darién
Santa María la Antigua del Darién—rendered as Dariena in the Latin of De Orbe Novo—was a Spanish colonial town founded in 1510 by Vasco Núñez de Balboa.
🇨🇴 Colombia · Ancient city
Ciudad Perdida (Teyuna) (Magdalena – Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta)
Late Intermediate Tairona 700–1600 CE (Tairona peak 1000–1500) · Tairona (Tairona-Buritaca, ancestors of Kogi / Arhuaco / Wiwa indigenous groups)
Tairona capital city (700–1600 CE) of Sierra Nevada: 184 stone-terraced bases (circular 10 m rings), elevated paved staircases (1,200 steps climb), retaining walls, aqueduct and burial terraces…
🇨🇴 Colombia · Archaeological wonder
San Agustín, Huila
San Agustín (Spanish pronunciation: [san aɣusˈtin]) is a town and municipality in the southern Colombian Department of Huila. The town is located 227 km away from the capital of the department, Neiva.
🇨🇴 Colombia · Archaeological wonder
San Agustín Archaeological Park (Huila – Colombian Massif (Magdalena watershed))
Regional Classic 1–900 CE (Early 1–300, Middle 300–800, Late 800–900) · Agustinian (San Agustín culture, undetermined linguistic affiliation, Colombian massif)
Largest group of religious monuments and megalithic sculptures in Latin America: 500+ monumental tombs, volcanic tuff statues (5.5 m ‘Double of San Agustín’ double-figure, Eagle devouring snakes),…
🇨🇴 Colombia · Archaeological wonder
Tierradentro National Archaeological Park (Cauca – Tierradentro (eastern Cauca Andes, Paéz valley))
Regional Classic 600–900 CE (Tierradentro phase; pre-Tierradentro contexts 300 BCE–600 CE in shafts) · Tierradentro (Nasa Páez region, distinct from San Agustín, Cauca Andes)
World-unique Andean hypogea mountain cemetery: 162 known rock-cut underground chamber tombs (5–8 m deep via vertical winding stair duct, oval 12 m chambers with radial pillars, domed ceilings…
🇪🇨 Ecuador · Archaeological wonder
Inca-Caranqui
Inca-Caranqui is an archaeological site located in the village of Caranqui on the southern outskirts of the city of Ibarra, Ecuador.
🇵🇪 Peru · Hydraulic works
Qhapaq Ñan – Andean Road System
Inca Empire with antecedents Wari/Tiwanaku (~1000–1532 CE; Inca 1438–1532 CE) · Inca (with pre-Inca antecedents)
The backbone of Tawantinsuyu, Qhapaq Ñan runs 6,000 km along the Andean crest from Colombia to Chile, with east–west transversal roads totalling over 23,000 km.