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Nevado del Ruiz, Galeras, Pico Cristóbal Colón and 7 more — what each one is, and why it is worth the detour.
Chosen from everything Wikidata knows about Colombia and ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions describe them, which is about as close to "famous" as open data gets. 2 are on UNESCO's World Heritage list.
Volcanic mountain in Colombia
Also called La Mesa de Herveo, a volcano on the border of Colombia's Caldas and Tolima departments, and the highest point of both, about 130 km (81 mi) west of Bogotá, the capital.
Photo: U.S. Geological Survey, Public domain
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Volcanic mountain in Colombia
An active stratovolcano near Pasto, capital of Colombia's Nariño department, rising 4,276 metres (14,029 ft) above sea level.
Photo: DSCN8766.JPG : Josecamilom derivative work: Crisneda2000 ( talk ), CC BY-SA 2.5
Mountain in Colombia
Possibly Colombia's highest mountain, reported to be 5,775 metres (18,947 ft) high. It and Pico Simón Bolívar, almost the same height, are the country's two highest peaks.
Photo: Sylvain Perret (published under CC BY-SA-3.0), CC BY-SA 3.0
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Highest volcano in Colombia
Colombia's highest volcano, 5,364 metres (17,598 ft) high, standing at the tripoint where the departments of Cauca, Huila and Tolima meet; it can be seen from Cali.
Photo: Pablo Andrés Ortega Chávez, GFDL 1.2
World Heritage
UNESCO World Heritage Site in Inza, Colombia
One of Colombia's ancient pre-Columbian cultures, which began to flourish around 200 BC in the mountains of the country's southwest and lasted into the 17th century.
Photo: inyucho, CC BY 2.0
World Heritage
UNESCO World Heritage Site in Huila Department, Colombia
A large archaeological area near San Agustín, a town in Colombia's Huila Department. No other place in Latin America has as many religious monuments and megalithic sculptures, and it is considered the largest necropolis in the world.
Photo: Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0
Basilica church in Nariño, Colombia
A Marian shrine and Catholic minor basilica set in the Guáitara River's canyon at Ipiales, in Colombia's Nariño Department, dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary under her title of Our Lady of the Rosary.
Photo: Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0
Mosque in Maicao, Columbia
A mosque in Maicao, La Guajira, Colombia, the third-largest in Latin America.
Photo: Yrp, Public domain
Active volcano in Colombia
An andesitic stratovolcano, active from the Late Pleistocene until recently, in Colombia's Tolima department, south of the Nevado del Ruiz volcano, within Los Nevados National Natural Park.
Photo: Unknown, Public domain
One of the two principal islands of San Andrés and Providencia, Colombia
Historically Old Providence, and usually called Providencia or Providence, a mountainous Caribbean island midway between Jamaica and Costa Rica. It belongs to the Colombian department of the Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina, or the Raizal Islands, and to the municipality of Providencia and Santa Catalina Islands.
Photo: Unknown, Public domain
Officially the Republic of Colombia, a South American country that also has island regions in North America. The mainland's neighbours are Panama to the northwest, Venezuela to the east, Brazil to the southeast, and Ecuador and Peru to the south and southwest; the Caribbean Sea lies to its north and the Pacific to its west. It is divided into 32 departments.
Officially The Republic of Colombia.
Based on the Wikipedia article, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0: the facts are Wikipedia's, the wording is this site's.
This guide lists 10: Nevado del Ruiz, Galeras, Pico Cristóbal Colón and Nevado del Huila and others. Tierradentro and San Agustín Archaeological Park are UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
By machine, from open data, with no human ranking them and nobody able to pay for a place on the list. Everything Wikidata records in Colombia that is a building, a landform, a protected area or a tourist attraction, has coordinates, a photograph and an English Wikipedia article, is ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions wrote about it. Provinces, cities, airports, stations and stretches of sea shared with the neighbours are filtered out.
2 of the 10 in this guide: Tierradentro and San Agustín Archaeological Park. That is not the full count for Colombia, only the listed sites that made this guide.
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