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Indigenous sacred sites in Colombia
Explore 10 sacred sites in Colombia connected to Indigenous. Compare locations on the map and find respectful cultural and visiting guidance.
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Hill of the Avocado
Part of Tierradentro Pyramid
Tierradentro, Cauca, Colombia
Sixty-two to seventy underground burial chambers pierce a 250-meter ridgeline at the highest point of the Tierradentro landscape....
La Ciudad Perdita
Santa Marta, Magdalena, Colombia
Deep in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, 169 stone terraces carved into the mountainside form the remains of a city that the Tairona people built around 800 CE, more than...
Lake Guatavita
Sesquilé, Cundinamarca, Colombia
Lake Guatavita is a sacred place in Muisca history, now visited within a CAR-managed reserve in Sesquilé, Colombia....
San Agustín Archaeological Park
Huila, Huila, Colombia
In the Colombian highlands where the Andes split and the Magdalena River begins, a civilization whose own name is lost created the largest collection of megalithic...
San Augustin Terrace A
Part of San Agustín Archaeological Park
Huila, Huila, Colombia
Mesita A is among the first places the San Agustin people chose to bury their important dead, approximately 2,300 years ago....
San Augustin Terrace B
Part of San Agustín Archaeological Park
Huila, Huila, Colombia
Mesita B is where the San Agustin culture speaks most fluently. Three burial mounds, approximately one hundred and six tombs, and sixty-three statues constitute the most...
San Augustin Terrace C
Part of San Agustín Archaeological Park
Huila, Huila, Colombia
Where Mesitas A and B communicate through monumental guardians and cosmic programs, Mesita C speaks through intimacy....
The Archaeological Park of Alto de las Piedras
Huila, Huila, Colombia
On a hilltop in the Colombian highlands, eleven monumental statues and painted burial chambers preserve the San Agustin culture's understanding of death as transformation....
The Archaeological Park of Alto de los Ídolos
Huila, Huila, Colombia
The San Agustin people found a horseshoe-shaped hill near Isnos and remade it. They leveled the summit, terraced the slopes, and filled the resulting platform with seven...
Tierradentro Pyramid
Inza, Cauca, Colombia
Near the town of Inza, a pyramidal stone formation rises from the Cauca mountainside, bearing the marks of two vastly different encounters....
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This guide includes 10 sacred places within the Indigenous tradition in Colombia.
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