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Laguna de Guatavita

Km 15, Vía Guatavita-Sesquilé, Bogota, Colombia

 

This lagoon is located in the old crater of a volcano and is surrounded by mountains and thick vegetation. It was here that the Guatavita Indian chief covered his body in gold and submerged in the water, as part of a ritual to honour his wife who, according to the legend, lived at the bottom of the lake. Many stories were written about this legend which is part of the El Dorado myth. For this same reason, there has been many attempts to try to recover the gold that supposedly lie at the bottom. The proof is a scar on one of the edges of the lake. It was made from a failed attempt to empty it at the turn of the 20th century, after which the water level dropped by approximately 20 meters.

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