Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta.

Seven interesting details about the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta:

  1. The Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta is the highest mountain in Colombia with 5,775m and is located between three departments: Magdalena, Cesar and La Guajira.
  2. In the world, it is the highest mountain that can be found on the shores of the sea, so that its summit is the point of the earth closest to the sky that is on the shores of the sea in the world.
  3. The Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta is part of two natural parks: the Tayrona National Natural Park and the Sierra Nevada National Park of Santa Marta that was declared a Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO in 1979 for its variety of ecosystems, thermal floors next to the sea, its unique beauty and its historical and cultural wealth. It has two twin peaks: Pico Bolívar and Pico Colón and we must protect its glaciers that have been melting for 40 years.
  4. The indigenous men of the Sierra Nevada mambean: that is, they chew coca leaves. Studies have shown that coca leaves do not suppress hunger but provide resistance for longer working days, deepens breathing and dilates the bronchi and serves for altitude sickness or soroche.
  5. The indigenous women of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta weave backpacks that represent the feminine, a prolongation of the uterus of the mother.
  6. In the Sierra there are four tribes descendants of the Tayronas, the Arhuacos (or ikas), the Wiwas, the Kogis and the Kankuamo. They are considered our older brothers.
  7. Gonawindúa for the Kogi is the center of the planet and is at the tip of the Sierra Nevada. The Kogi are wise: there is a documentary called Aluna in which some British scientists show that the knowledge of the Koguis coincides with studies of astronomy in London.

In homage to the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Latinlán evokes it in a sea of ​​lines and mountains of little points. Thank you Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta for your wealth and for your beauty.