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Rock Art in Colombia

Americas · 2 sites · ✦ 1 UNESCO

Colombia holds 2 documented rock art sites in this atlas. The oldest, Chiribiquete National Park, dates back ~20,000 yrs. 1 is a UNESCO World Heritage site. 1 welcomes visitors today.

Prehistoric cave art at Serranía de la Lindosa© Erik.roger.fuller · CC0
Pictured: Serranía de la Lindosa

Sites

Chiribiquete National Park Located in the largest tropical rainforest national park in the world, this site contains more than 600,000 traces of around 20,000 petroglyphs and pictographs.

Serranía de la Lindosa Along cliffs on the edge of the Colombian Amazon, tens of thousands of ochre figures stretch for kilometres.

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