Seven Wonders of Colombia
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The Seven Wonders of Colombia was a 2007 competition sponsored by El Tiempo. The Newspaper asked readers to nominate and vote fot manmade structures whose engineering, architectural or historical value deserved special recognition.

El Tiempo's Seven Wonders of Colombia

Image Nominee Location Department Number of votes
The Salt Cathedral of Zipaquirá Zipaquirá
Zipaquirá
Zipaquirá is a municipality and city of Colombia in the department of Cundinamarca. Its neighboring municipalities are Tausa and Cogua to the north; Nemocón, Gachancipá and Sopó to the east; Cajicá and Tabio to the south; and Subachoque and Pacho to the west. Its seat of municipal government is 49...

Cundinamarca
Cundinamarca
-Geography :* Cundinamarca Department , Republic of Colombia* Free and Independent State of Cundinamarca...

6,654
Las Lajas Sanctuary Ipiales Nariño
Nariño Department
Nariño is a department of Colombia named after Antonio Nariño. It is in the west of the country, bordering Ecuador and the Pacific Ocean.Its capital is Pasto, other important cities include Tumaco, Ipiales.-Municipalities:# Albán# Aldana# Ancuya...

5,057
San Agustín Archaeological Park San Agustin
San Agustín, Huila
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 attacks by indigenous people destroyed...

Huila
Huila Department
Huila is one of the departments of Colombia. It is located in the southwest of the country, and its capital is Neiva.-Geography:The south of the department is located in the Colombian Massif...

4,680
Military Architecture of Cartagena de Indias Cartagena
Cartagena, Colombia
Cartagena de Indias , is a large Caribbean beach resort city on the northern coast of Colombia in the Caribbean Coast Region and capital of Bolívar Department...

Bolivar
Bolívar Department
Bolívar is a department of Colombia. It was named after one of the original nine states of the United States of Colombia. It is located to the north of the country, extending from the coast at Cartagena near the mouth of the Magdalena River, then south along the river to a border with Antioquia.Its...

4,389
Ciudad Perdida
Ciudad Perdida
Ciudad Perdida is the archaeological site of an ancient city in Sierra Nevada, Colombia. It is believed to have been founded about 800 AD, some 650 years earlier than Machu Picchu...

Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta
Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta
The Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta is an isolated mountain range apart from the Andes chain that runs through Colombia. Reaching an altitude of 5,700 metres above sea level just 42 km from the Caribbean coast, the Sierra Nevada is the world's highest coastal range...

Magdalena
Magdalena Department
Magdalena is a department of Colombia, located to the north of the country by the Caribbean Sea. The capital of the Magdalena Department is Santa Marta and was named after the Magdalena River...

4,373
Tierradentro
Tierradentro
Tierradentro is a National archeological park in the jurisdiction of the municipality of Inza, Department of Cauca, Colombia. The park is located 100 km away from the capital of the Department, Popayán....

Inza
Inza, Cauca
Inza is a town and municipality in the Cauca Department, Colombia....

Cauca
Cauca Department
Cauca is a Department of Colombia. Located in the south-western part of the country, facing the Pacific Ocean to the west, the Valle del Cauca Department to the north, Tolima Department to the northeast, Huila Department to the east and the Nariño Department to the south, covering a total area of...

2,787
Teatro Colón
Teatro de Cristóbal Colón
thumb|200px|Facade of the Teatro de Cristobal Colón Bogotá D.C.thumb|200px|Frescoes of six muses on the ceiling of the main hallThe Teatro de Cristóbal Colón , also known as the "Teatro Colón", is located in Bogotá, Colombia and it is the nation's National Theatre...

Bogota
Bogotá
Bogotá, Distrito Capital , from 1991 to 2000 called Santa Fé de Bogotá, is the capital, and largest city, of Colombia. It is also designated by the national constitution as the capital of the department of Cundinamarca, even though the city of Bogotá now comprises an independent Capital district...

Bogotá D.C. 2,785

Other finalists

  • Quinta de San Pedro Alejandrino
    Quinta de San Pedro Alejandrino
    La Quinta de San Pedro Alejandrino is a hacienda or Quinta built in the 17th century, famous for being the death place of Simón Bolívar on December 17, 1830. At that time, the estate produced rum, honey and panela...

     – 2,783
  • Zenú Waterworks in Mompox
    Santa Cruz de Mompox
    Mompox or Mompós, officially Santa Cruz de Mompox, is a town and municipality in northern Colombia, in the Bolívar Department, which has preserved its colonial character. Located on an island in the Magdalena River where it joins the Cauca River, 249 kilometers from Cartagena. Mompox depends upon...

     Depression – 2,661
  • Villa de Leyva
    Villa de Leyva
    Villa de Leyva is a colonial town and municipality, in the Boyacá department of Colombia, part of the subregion of the Ricaurte Province. The town is located some 40 km west of Tunja and has a population of about 9,600 people...

    's Main Square – 2,598
  • Puente de Occidente in Santa Fe de Antioquia – 2,476
  • Santa Bárbara Church in Santa Cruz de Mompox
    Santa Cruz de Mompox
    Mompox or Mompós, officially Santa Cruz de Mompox, is a town and municipality in northern Colombia, in the Bolívar Department, which has preserved its colonial character. Located on an island in the Magdalena River where it joins the Cauca River, 249 kilometers from Cartagena. Mompox depends upon...

     – 2,057
  • Puerto Colombia
    Puerto Colombia
    Puerto Colombia is a town and municipality in Atlántico Department, Colombia. Famous for its "Pier of Puerto Colombia". Duties were later transferred to the larger and modern Port of Barranquilla in Bocas de Cenizas, the mouth of the Magdalena River in the Caribbean sea.-External links:...

    's Pier – 1,943
  • National Museum of Colombia's Building – 1,915
  • Bolívar Square
    Bolívar Square
    The Bolívar Square is located in the heart of the historical area of Bogotá. It has a statue of Simón Bolívar sculpted in 1846 by the Italian Pietro Tenerani, which was the first ever public monument in the city...

     – 1,894
  • Ecce Homo
    Ecce Homo
    Ecce Homo are the Latin words used by Pontius Pilate in the Vulgate translation of the , when he presents a scourged Jesus Christ, bound and crowned with thorns, to a hostile crowd shortly before his Crucifixion. The original Greek is Ἰδοὺ ὁ ἄνθρωπος . The King James Version translates the phrase...

     Convent – 1,849
  • Barichara
    Barichara
    Barichara is a town and municipality in the Santander Department in northeastern Colombia.- External links :*...

    's Main Square – 1,822
  • Túnel de La Quiebra – 1,782
  • Capitolio Nacional
    Capitolio Nacional
    Capitolio Nacional is a building on Bolivar Square in central Bogotá, the construction of which began in 1876, by order of president Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera, and was not concluded until 1926. It houses both houses of the Congress of Colombia...

     – 1,626
  • Metropolitan cathedral
    Metropolitan Cathedral
    A metropolitan cathedral is a cathedral to which other cathedrals in a province are suffragan. See metropolitan bishop.Examples of use as a proper name:-Americas:*Buenos Aires Metropolitan Cathedral*Metropolitan Cathedral of La Paz...

     of Medellin
    Medellín
    Medellín , officially the Municipio de Medellín or Municipality of Medellín, is the second largest city in Colombia. It is in the Aburrá Valley, one of the more northerly of the Andes in South America. It has a population of 2.3 million...

     – 1,624
  • Museum of Antioquia
    Museum of Antioquia
    The Museum of Antioquia is an art museum in Medellín, Colombia. It houses a large collection of works by Medellín native Fernando Botero and Pedro Nel Gómez.It was the first museum established in the department of Antioquia and the second in Colombia...

    's Building – 1,191
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