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San Agustín Archeological Park
| Site number: | 744 |
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| Type of site: | Cultural | |
| Date: | 1st-8th century | |
| Date of Inscription: | 1995 | |
| Location: | South America, Colombia, Department of Huila: Municipalities of San Augustin and San José de Isnos | |
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| Description: | Standing in a wild, spectacular landscape is the largest group of religious monuments and megalithic sculptures in South America. Gods and mythical animals are expertly represented in a range of styles, varying from abstract to realist. These artistic examples exhibit the creativity and imagination of a northern Andean culture that thrived from the 1st to the 8th century. --WHMNet paraphrase from the description at WHC Site, where additional information is available. | |
| San Agustín 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. Population is around 30,000. The village was originally founded in 1752 by Alejo Astudillo, but Indigenous people attacks destroyed it. The present village was founded in 1790 by Lucas de Herazo y Mendigaña. --Wikipedia. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. | ||
| Source: | http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/744 | |
| Reference: | 1. UNESCO World Heritage Center, Site Page. | |