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SACRED LAGOONS OF CHIBCHAS AND QUIMBAYAS
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Sindamanoy Path – Alvaro H. Pescador R. - 1995. La Cocha Lagoon, biggest standing fresh water body of Colombia has lost part of its surface due to agricultural development besides it, which demands lots of water. The same is happening with the Tota, Fuquene and Suesca Lagoons over the Colombian Andes.
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Estrecho del Magdalena - Alvaro H. Pescador R. – 2003. The Magdalena River forms must important basin of Colombian Andes. The regional environmental Authority, CAC, has declared red alert to the central government due to huge deforestation where the river born, in a Lagoon which has lost 40%& of its surface.
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Siecha Lagoon - Alvaro H. Pescador R – 1999. La Siecha Lagoon used to be sacred to the Muiscas, indigenous who live in the Bogotá tableland at the conqueror’s arrival. Speletia Grandiflora, grow in community at tropical Andinean paramos.
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Colombia has 80% of this ecosystems in the world. Deforestation and fires to establish agriculture are degradation factors, of this water generating ecosystems. |
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Guatavita Lagoon - Alvaro H. Pescador R – 2004. The emerald green of this lagoon was frame for the El Dorado rites: gold offerings to thank the nature for Muisca’s must important treasure: the Water.
Muisca’s life was bound to water from the beginning. The Indian female used to have her baby beside a lagoon, and after the lighting offered him to Sie, the water goodness.
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Iguaque Sanctuary - Alvaro H. Pescador R – 2004. Muisca’s cosmogonic myth states that Bachué emerged from the sacred waters of this Lagoon with a tree years old child who once grownup, married her, becoming in the source of the first Muiscas.
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Andinean Fall – Alvaro H. Pescador R – 1985. This little waterfall is an affluent of the Combeima River, which belongs to the Magdalena Basin. Every thing is bound. |
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Combeima River - Alvaro H. Pescador R – 1995. Combeima River crystalline water is the source of Ibagué’s aqueduct, a city of 1 million people. Colombian musical capital.
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Palma de Cera del Quindío - Alvaro H. Pescador R – 1995 Ceroxylon quinduensis,
Colombian National Tree is tallest Palm in the world. There are migratory birds which feeds from it, endangered, due to the strong pressure over their habitat. They are cut an used as wood coal.
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Otún Lagoon– Alvaro H. Pescador R. – 1998. The Otun lagoon was a sacred center for the Quimbaya culture, America’s best gold artisans. It is possible to get there up from Pereira, in the hurt of the coffee corridor, through the UcumariPark, which in Chibcha tongue means “Glasses bear”, the only south American bear, which lives down there.
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Otún River– Alvaro H. Pescador R. – 1998. The Otun River born from Otun Lagoon in the National Park of the Snowy Mountains. The Lagoon is formed from the melted snow of the Santa Isabel Snowy Volcano, which glacier has decreased by 40% during last 20 years. What is going to happen with this fresh water bodies from which coffee farms relays, once the snow be finish due to global warming?
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