Salto de Tequendama - COLOMBIA - 3DR

According to a Muisca myth, it was formed by divine action to evacuate the waters that flooded the savanna of Bogota. Some studies point out that this may have actually happened, and that their formation may have occurred in a short span of time.1 After traveling more than 100 km along the cundiboyacense high plateau and the Bogota savannah, the Bogotá river falls from approximately 157 meters on a circular rocky abyss forming the waterfall, which is in a wooded region of permanent fog. Administratively belongs to the municipality of Soacha. Some of its waters are also fed by the overflow of the Muña Dam. It is famous the description that made of the place the naturalist Humboldt, who measured it with a barometer, calculating its height in 185 meters. Approximately until the middle of the 20th century under the waterfall there were flora and fauna. However, today they have been lost by the pollution of the river.