Things to find in Colombia

What the map holds here

• Colombian emerald (Muzo) Gem & mineral ground
  The finest emeralds in the world, by universal agreement, come from a few mines in the Boyaca hills of Colombia: Muzo, Chivor and Coscuez. The Muisca people worked them before the Spanish took them by force, and the deep...
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• El Dorado Legend
  The legend that emptied Europe into South America. El Dorado, “the gilded one,” was not first a city but a man: the Muisca ruler who, in a real ceremony at Lake Guatavita in the highlands of Colombia, covered himself in gold dust...
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Every one of these is sourced

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