Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta National Natural Park Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
About Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta National Natural Park
The park is very large, covering a substantial area of the mountain range. The park spans 3,820 square kilometers. Foreign visitors seldom know much about theIndigenous cultures of South Americaaside from the fact that there was once a great society known as theIncainhabiting large regions of the Andes. There was actually another great society that lived north of the Inca called theMuisca, and they had various splinter groups and branches of their language, among which were theTayrona, who lived in what is today northern Colombia. The Tayrona spoke a common language calledChibchanand the Tayrona in turn had their own splinter groups, including four that now live in the Sierra Santa Marta: theKogi, a related group called theArhuaco, theKankuamoand theWiwa. They each speak their own dialect
Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta National Natural Park Travel Guide Sections
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