The Guatavita Lagoon

El Dorado

Jhoan Sebastian Saavedra

Samuel Rodriguez Jaramillo
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Location:

• The Guatavita lagoon (El Dorado) is a water body located in the

eastern mountain range of Colombia, in the Tierra Negra village of
the municipality of Sesquilé, province of Almeidas, department of
Cundinamarca, 75 km northeast of Bogotá
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• To get there from Bogotá, access the North Highway
to the outskirts of Sesquilé or the Guasca -
Sesquilé road. The lagoon is part of an ecotourism
complex whose entrance fee is COP 18,000.
Characteristics:

• The lagoon is at an altitude of 3.100 meters above sea level and at a

temperature of 5 to 11 degrees.It is a perfectly circular mountain
depression, between 350 and 430 meters in diameter, surrounded
by native encenillo forests. The fish known as guapucha occurs in
the lagoon.

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(Tourists take a guided ecotourism walk of two kilometers until
they reach the slope that frames the lagoon)