Zipaquirá Direction to join km au nord trentaine of Bogota, the visiter pour première merveille de Colombia, la cathédrale de sel. À seulement quelques mètres sous terre, on a trouve des plus gros du monde gisement de sel, qui provient de l'evaporation de l'océan à la fin du Tethys Cretaceous (il ya environ 100 millions d'années) et qui found himself imprisoned during the formation of the Andes. Producing property since pre-Columbian times of Muiscas, part of the mine is now open to the public.
At the second level of the mine, miners had to progressively carved chapels in the cavities they were digging. Now closed for risk of collapse, this level is no longer exploited and a new cathedral of salt and a path crosses were set up in the third level of the mine, 180 meters below the surface.
The tourist attraction of this place is fully exploited since surface in a museum trouve, des restaurants et un beau mur d'escalade, mutandis qu'au fond of mine Magicin ont des souvenir boutiques, a cafe-restaurant et même convention center! Pendant ce temps-là, à l'autre bout des galeries, de l'autre côté de la montagne, on continue à plusieurs dizaines extraire of tonnes of milliers de sel par an.
Road to a Zipaquirá, about thirty miles north of Bogotá, to visit the "first wonder of Colombia", the Cathedral of salt. Only a few meters underground, is one of the largest salt deposit in the world, which comes evaporation of the Tethys Ocean at the end of the Cretaceous (there are about 100 million years) and found to be incarcerated at the time of formation of the Andes. Deposit mined since pre-Columbian times by Muiscas, part of the mine is open to the public today.
In the second level of the mine, the retailer had carved chapels in the cavities as they dug. Today closed at risk of collapse, this level is no longer exploited and a new cathedral of salt and a Way of the Cross are carved in the third level of the mine, 180 meters below the surface.
The attraction of this place is fully exploited because the surface is in a museum nice restaurants and a climbing wall, while in the bottom of the mine were installed souvenir shops, a cafe-restaurant and even a convention center! Meanwhile, the opposite side of the galleries, on the other side of the mountain, continue drawing tens of thousands of tons of salt per year.
In the second level of the mine, the retailer had carved chapels in the cavities as they dug. Today closed at risk of collapse, this level is no longer exploited and a new cathedral of salt and a Way of the Cross are carved in the third level of the mine, 180 meters below the surface.
The attraction of this place is fully exploited because the surface is in a museum nice restaurants and a climbing wall, while in the bottom of the mine were installed souvenir shops, a cafe-restaurant and even a convention center! Meanwhile, the opposite side of the galleries, on the other side of the mountain, continue drawing tens of thousands of tons of salt per year.
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