🇨🇴 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 · Ancient city
Checua
Checua is a preceramic open area archaeological site in Nemocón, Cundinamarca, Colombia. The site is located 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) north of the town centre.
🇨🇴 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 · Ancient city
Aguazuque
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.
🇨🇴 Colombia · Rock art
El Abra
El Abra is the name given to an extensive archeological site, located in the valley of the same name.
🇨🇴 Colombia · Pyramid
Morro del Tulcán
El Morro del Tulcán (lit. Tulcán Hill) is an Indigenous pyramid in Popayán, Colombia. The pyramid was constructed in the pre-Columbian period, approximately between 1600–500 BCE; the period which is…
🇨🇴 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 · Rock art
Cojines del Zaque
The Cojines del Zaque (English: "Cushions of the Zaque") is an archeological site of the Muisca located in the city of Tunja, Boyacá, which in the time of the Muisca Confederation was called Hunza.
🇨🇴 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 · Museum
Calima Archaeological Park
Preclassic – Late Intermediate (c.1500 BCE–1600 CE) Ilama – Yotoco – Sonso · Calima (Ilama–Yotoco–Sonso)
The Calima Archaeological Park (El Topacio, Dariel Museum) at Lago Calima, Valle del Cauca, is Colombia's type-sequence for West Andean prehistory (1500 BCE–1600 CE) at 1,490 m on the Western…
🇨🇴 Colombia · Megalith
San Agustín Archaeological Park
San Agustín Culture · San Agustín
San Agustín Archaeological Park in Huila Department, Colombia is a San Agustín Culture megalithic attributed to San Agustín culture. Inscribed UNESCO World Heritage Site (ID 744).
🇨🇴 Colombia · Tomb
Malagana
Yotoco–Malagana (c.500 BCE–500 CE) and Sonso (c.500–1550 CE) · Malagana–Yotoco–Sonso (Calima sphere)
Malagana at El Bolo, Palmira, Valle del Cauca (970 m) is infamous for the 1992 sugar-cane slurry that exposed a Yotoco–Malagana cemetery (500 BCE–500 CE) and led to the wholesale looting of ~4 tonnes…
🇨🇴 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…
🇨🇴 Colombia · Buried city
Sierra Nevada — Pueblito Chengue–Buritaca Second Sector (Tayrona)
Late Intermediate to Contact (c.700 – 1603 CE) · Tayrona (Tairona)
Tayrona Buritaca ridge 380 m — 120 stone terraces with canals and causeway to Chengue fishery port, 700–1600 CE, coast-sierra twin to Teyuna.
🇨🇴 Colombia · Hypothetical site
El Dorado — Lake Guaviare–Inírida Phantom (Amazon-Orinoco Divide Lake)
Holocene white-sand savanna pan + 17th c. cartographic copy of Parime onto Guaviare hydrology; Nukak occupation 12ka without lake city (no El Dorado horizon) · White-sand savanna seasonal pan 2 km with Nukak quartzite scatters (12ka rock art) misread as golden lake city 17th c. cartographic copy
El Dorado savanna pan 2 km on Guaviare–Inírida divide 165 m — seasonal blackwater lake drying to white sand, Nukak flakes but no harbour, La Lindosa rock art region.