| Country |
Details |
Photo |
Description |
Year
Taken |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Popayan
Site / Event : Night Easter Procession
|
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The procession is candle-lit.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Popayan
Site / Event : Night Easter Procession
|
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The procession is listed as a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage activity.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Silvia
|
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Silvia is a Guambiano village in the hills above Popayan at 2520m.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Silvia
|
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The village has a Tuesday market.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Silvia
|
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The Tuesday market attracts people from neighbouring villages.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Silvia
|
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Guambiano women wear white pouches or collars over blue shawls.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Silvia
|
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A couple at the market.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Silvia
|
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The women wear European style hats.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Silvia
|
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A group of men.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Silvia
|
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The village is famous for its leather goods.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Silvia
|
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Saddle shop.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Silvia
|
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Fruit stall.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Silvia
|
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Outside a shop.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Silvia
|
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A group of Guambianos.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Silvia
|
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Vegetables for sale.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Silvia
|
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Vegetable seller.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Silvia
|
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A group of women.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Silvia
|
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Waiting by a lorry.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Silvia
|
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Woman.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Silvia
|
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Basket stall.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Silvia
|
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Looking at a book.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Silvia
|
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The village square.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Silvia
|
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Two men.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Silvia
|
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Guambiano mother and daughter in Silvia market.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Silvia
|
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Chivas are the local transport linking villages.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Silvia
|
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Chivas have no doors.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Silvia
|
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Full chiva.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Pisimbala
|
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San Andreas de Pisimbala is a small village set in a fertile valley.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Pisimbala
|
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The pretty thatched church is in the village centre.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Pisimbala
|
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The village is home to the Paez people.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Pisimbala
|
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Paez woman.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Pisimbala
|
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A family run guest house.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Pisimbala
|
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Rickety bridge.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Pisimbala
|
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Girl and a mororcycle.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Pisimbala
|
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Typical Paez house with outside oven.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Pisimbala
District : Tierradentro
|
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The hills around the village contain hundreds of underground carved tombs dating from the 1st century.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Pisimbala
District : Tierradentro
|
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The archeological site is scattered over a large area and is called Tierradentro.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Pisimbala
District : Tierradentro
Site / Event : Tomb 21
|
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On a hill called Segovia are over 100 burial chambers carved from volcanic rock. Tomb 21 is 4.54m deep.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Pisimbala
District : Tierradentro
Site / Event : Tomb 21
|
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Decorated funerary urn.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Pisimbala
District : Tierradentro
Site / Event : Tomb 22
|
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Many of the tombs are reached by steep stone steps. This is Tomb 22.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Pisimbala
District : Tierradentro
Site / Event : Tomb 22
|
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Decorated 1st century funerary urn.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Pisimbala
District : Tierradentro
Site / Event : Tomb 28
|
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Tomb 28 is 4.25m deep.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Pisimbala
District : Tierradentro
Site / Event : Tomb 28
|
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Ceramics.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Pisimbala
District : Tierradentro
Site / Event : Tomb 9
|
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Tomb 9 is 5.35m deep and reached by spiral steps.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Pisimbala
District : Tierradentro
Site / Event : Tomb 9
|
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The tomb has painted walls and columns.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Pisimbala
District : Tierradentro
Site / Event : Tomb 9
|
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The 1st century Tomb 9 is one of the most decorated.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Pisimbala
District : Tierradentro
Site / Event : Tomb 9
|
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Detail of a face on a column.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Pisimbala
District : Tierradentro
Site / Event : Tomb 9
|
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Painted ceiling.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Pisimbala
District : Tierradentro
|
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Tomb 26 has columns carved from the rock.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Pisimbala
District : Tierradentro
|
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Coffee grows on the side of the road.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Pisimbala
District : Tierradentro
Site / Event : Tomb 8
|
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Tomb 8 is the deepest (5.93m).
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Pisimbala
District : Tierradentro
Site / Event : Tomb 8
|
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The tomb has 15 steps and is excavated from solid rock.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Pisimbala
District : Tierradentro
Site / Event : Tomb 8
|
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The interior.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Pisimbala
District : Tierradentro
Site / Event : Tomb 10
|
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Tomb 10 is 5.00m deep.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Pisimbala
District : Tierradentro
Site / Event : Tomb 10
|
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Wall and ceiling paintings.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Pisimbala
District : Tierradentro
Site / Event : Tomb 10
|
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Earthquake damage.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Pisimbala
District : Tierradentro
|
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Flowers of the convolvolus family.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Pisimbala
District : Tierradentro
|
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A carved and painted tomb on El Duende Hill.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Pisimbala
District : Tierradentro
Site / Event : Tomb 20
|
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The entrance to Tomb 20.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Pisimbala
District : Tierradentro
Site / Event : Tomb 20
|
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The tomb is carved but not painted.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Pisimbala
District : Tierradentro
|
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Tierradentro is over a wide area of hills and forest.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Pisimbala
District : Tierradentro
|
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The region has many stone carvings above ground.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Pisimbala
District : Tierradentro
|
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Stone statue.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Pisimbala
District : Tierradentro
|
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Tomb at Alto de San Andreas with paintings of frogs.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Pisimbala
District : Tierradentro
|
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Plain urn containing the ashes of tribal elders.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Pisimbala
District : Tierradentro
|
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Coffee beans.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Pisimbala
District : Tierradentro
|
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Red flower (amyrallis).
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Pisimbala
District : Tierradentro
|
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The mountains around Tierradentro.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Pisimbala
|
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Hills around the village.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Pisimbala
|
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Stream through the forest.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Pisimbala
|
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Unusual purple plant.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Pisimbala
|
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Honeysuckle.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Pisimbala
|
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Orchid like yellow flowers.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Pisimbala
|
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Two beetles.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Pisimbala
|
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Pink and white flowers (a type of hydranga) in the hills around the village.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : Pisimbala
|
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Young ferns.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
Region : Magdalena River
|
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The Magdalena River near San Agustin.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
Region : Magdalena River
|
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The Magdalana River is one of the most important in Colombia.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
Region : Magdalena River
|
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The pretty village of Valencia.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
Region : Magdalena River
|
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The valley is very fertile.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : San Agustin
Site / Event : El Estrecho
|
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El Estrecho is a gorge fromed by a tributary of the Magdalena River.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : San Agustin
Site / Event : El Estrecho
|
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The gorge is over 2km wide and near San Agustin.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : San Agustin
Site / Event : El Estrecho
|
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View of rapids.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : San Agustin
|
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The small town of San Agustin.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : San Agustin
|
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San Agustin is a busy market town.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : San Agustin
|
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Traditional life is strong in the town.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : San Agustin
|
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Chiva, the local transport in Southern Colombia.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : San Agustin
|
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Man in a chiva.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : San Agustin
District : Archaeological Park
|
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The region around San Agustin is an important archeological site.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : San Agustin
District : Archaeological Park
|
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San Agustin is one of America's most important archeological sites.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : San Agustin
District : Archaeological Park
|
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The site dates from the 6th to 12th centuries and is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : San Agustin
District : Archaeological Park
|
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One of the 15 burial sites found at Obando village.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : San Agustin
District : Archaeological Park
|
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Many tombs are close to the main plaza of Obando village.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : San Agustin
District : Archaeological Park
|
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Pottery found at the site.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : San Agustin
District : Archaeological Park
|
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Pottery.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : San Agustin
District : Archaeological Park
|
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Typical San Agustin tomb.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : San Agustin
District : Archaeological Park
|
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A number of tombs were found at Betania Farm in 1995.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : San Agustin
District : Archaeological Park
|
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Sarcophagus with head.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : San Agustin
District : Archaeological Park
|
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Tomb B1 at Alto de los Idolos is a typical structure made of flat stone from 1st to 6th century.
|
1995 |
| Colombia |
City / Town : San Agustin
District : Archaeological Park
|
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Tomb B2 is guarded by a crocodile type creature.
|
1995 |
were added from 1 February 2025.