This document provides information about Colombia and several tourist destinations within Colombia, specifically the city of Bogota. It discusses that Colombia has diverse flora and fauna due to its various climate zones. It also mentions several museums in Bogota worth visiting, including the Gold Museum, Botero's Museum, and Monserrate Church. The author shares their positive personal experiences at the Gold and Botero's Museums in Bogota.

1. By: Marco Antonio Niebles.
(Abraham Lincoln School)

2. Colombia
 Colombia is big country with 32
departments, have the borders
with Panama, Venezuela,
Brazil, Ecuador and Peru,
Colombia has a lot of flora and
fauna, also touristic places
such as museums, statues and
constructions that make
people decide go to
Colombia.
 Colombia is also a tropical
place; we have a lot of
wetlands. In the economic
way, we are better than Bolivia
and a lot of countries of Africa.
We have a nice culture and
Colombia is famous because
of the Amazonas’ jungle. So I
am sure you will have fun in
Colombia.

3. Flora and fauna
 Colombia has a lot of
thermal levels because
of the Andes, so each
thermal level has
different flora and
fauna, for example in
the warm thermal level
you will find that most of
the trees there have
their leaves of a light
green color, and also
you will see a lot of birds
there.

4. Touristic places
 Colombia has a lot of
cities such as Bogota
D.C, Medellin, Cali,
Barranquilla,
Bucaramanga etc…
each city has a lot of
touristic places, for
example Bogota,
Bogota has
constructions like
Colpatrias tower,
Transmilenio, or
museums such as the
National Museum,
the Gold Museum or
Botero’s Museum.

5. Bogota
 Bogotá is a big and
interesting city with a lot of
touristic places such as
Colpatria’s tower,
Transmilenio, Usaquen’s
train station and also
museums like, the Gold
Museum, Botero’s Museum,
the National Museum, and
the Military Museum.
 Bogotá also has a great
culture and awesome
history, here in Bogotá you
can go to incredible
restaurants and to fun
places. Bogota is one of
the biggest cities in the
world, also here in Bogota
you can go to a lot of
shopping centers such as
Titan Plaza, Santafe,
Palatino, Unicentro etc…
so if you want to go to a
place for enjoy your time,
you must choose Bogotá, I
think here you will learn
about our culture in a fun
way.

6. Bogota

7. Gold museum
 The Gold Museum is located
in Bogota, Colombia. It
displays an extraordinary
selection of its prehispanic
gold work collection (the
biggest in the world) in its
exhibition rooms on the
second and third floors.
Together with other pottery,
stone, shell, wood and textile
archeological objects, these
items, made of what
indigenous cultures was a
sacred metal, testify to the life
and thought of different
societies which inhabited
what is known as Colombia
before contact was made with
Europe.
 In 1993 the Bank of the
Republic began helping to
protect the archaeological
patrimony of Colombia. The
object known as Poporo
Quimbaya was the first one in
a collection. It has been on
exhibition for 65 years.

8. Some Gold Museum articles

9. Monserrate
 Monserrate is a mountain
that dominates the city
center of Bogota; it rises
to 3,152 meters above
the sea level, the church
was started to build in
1620 and it finished in
1925.
 All downtown Bogota,
south Bogota and some
sections of the city are
visible facing west,
making it a popular
destination for watching
the sun set over the city.
 The hill is a pilgrim
destination, as well as a
tourist attraction. In
addition to the church, the
summit contains
restaurants, cafeteria, souv
enir shops and many
smaller tourist facilities.
Monserrate can be
accessed by aerial
tramway, a funicular or by
climbing, the preferred
way of pilgrims.

10. Monserrate church

11. Botero’s Museum
 The art collection donated by Colombian
artist Fernando Botero is considered the
most important donation in the Country’s
history. The donation was given to
Colombia’s Central Bank and includes
123 works of art by Botero. The
techniques used in such pieces are
mainly drawing, watercolors, oil painting
pastels and sculpture. The collection is
displayed in the rooms of the former Luis
López de Mesa periodicals library, which
later came to be known as the House of
Exhibitions. This building is now Botero’s
Museum permanent headquarters.
 In Botero´s Museum you
can learn a lot of painting
techniques and also you
can enjoy Botero’s
paintings.

12. My personal experience in the Gold
and the Botero’s Museums
 My experience at the Gold
Museum of Bogota was
awesome, when I enter to
the Gold Museum I saw a lot
of gold articles, each article
has a different and
interesting history so I stay
there for a long time, also
when I didn't understand
something the Gold Museum
guides answer my
questions and also they
invited me and my brother
to a fun activity in the fourth
floor.
 The activity consist in cut some
papers and then paste it to the
other paper, it was a really fun
experience and when I finish doing
that the Gold Museum Guides give
me other activity paper to do in
my home.
 When I finish my experience in the
Gold Museum I went to the
Botero’s Museum, there I took
many photos and also I observe
the sculptures that Botero donate
to the Republic Bank.
 Finally I was so hungry so I went to
Juan Valdez café and there I drink
a cappuccino with a carrot pie, it
really was a good experience.

13. About the Author
 Marco Antonio Niebles
was born on february
10 of 2001, he studies
at Abraham Lincoln
School, he plays with
his brother Juan and
he and Juan like to
have new experiences
and enjoy their time
with their friends.

14. sources
 http://www.usaquen.gov.co/
 www.Cerromonserrate.com
 http://www.banrepcultural.org/museo-del-oro
 http://www.google.com.co/imghp?hl=es&tab=ii
 http://santaanacentrocomercial.com/
 http://www.bogotaturismo.gov.co/museo-botero-
manzana-sur-biblioteca-luis-angel-arango
 http://www.lacandelaria.info/index.php?option=co
m_content&view=article&id=108:museo-
botero&catid=41:museos&Itemid=59
 http://www.unicentrobogota.com/
 http://www.countryclubdebogota.com/
 http://www.museodeloro.web.com.co/

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16. Usaquen
 Usaquen is one of the twenty localitys of
Bogota, there you can do many things
such as visit Usaquen’s train station, Buy
handycrafts or other objects at Usaquen’s
flea market.(Usaquen’s flea market only
open on Sundays), Go to some of the
Spanish colonial style architecture
restaurants in the Usaquen’s central
square or Visit Usaquen’s new places
(shopping centers like Unicentro or Santa
Ana, the Country Club or other restaurants
such as Crepes & Waffles).