Discover Los Curos

If you’re looking for a hotel in Los Curos, the nature and culture of the associated municipality of Mongua can help guide your trip planning. The landscapes and cultural sites featured here are in Mongua. They range from mountain ranges and lagoons to a viewpoint and archaeological heritage. This can help you decide whether to focus your trip on natural landscapes, a hiking route, or cultural themes.

Landscape and biodiversity

The municipality of Mongua is surrounded by mountains. The surrounding area includes the mountain ranges of Nuevo Mundo, Periquila, and Novaca, as well as the Cravo River and the lagoons La Estrella, Negra, Candelaria, Guevara, and Hato. Mongua is considered particularly rich in biodiversity. Its landscape cannot be reduced to a single viewpoint: the mountain scenery, river, and lagoons offer different ways to experience nature. The mountain ranges provide a mountainous setting for the municipality, while the Cravo and the lagoons serve as distinct points of reference as bodies of water. The characterization of its biodiversity adds another natural aspect to these geographical features. When organizing nature-related themes for your trip, you can distinguish between mountain ranges, bodies of water, and biodiversity.

Views from Morro de Use

A prominent viewpoint in Mongua is Morro de Use. From there, the view extends to the eastern plains, the Sierra Nevada del Cocuy, and the valleys of Tundama, Sogamoso, Duitama, Paipa, and Monguí. The view encompasses several named landscape regions, but differs from viewing individual lagoons or the Cravo River. Here, the focus is on views of plains, mountains, and valleys. If you’re planning your trip around landscape features, Morro de Use offers a different point of reference from the bodies of water or a hiking route.

Cultural heritage in Mongua

In Mongua, architectural history, archaeological heritage, and rock art come together as distinct cultural themes. The Church of San Jerónimo was built of stone in 1942; Father José Lisandro Cely is associated with its construction. The municipality’s archaeological museum brings together several Indigenous archaeological artifacts. At Las Piedras de Santo Domingo, there are significant rock carvings, including a depiction of a deer hunt. The church combines a specific year of construction with an attribution for its building, while the museum and rock carvings highlight archaeological heritage and imagery. This allows you to consider architectural history, an archaeological collection, and rock art as distinct cultural themes.

The Laguna Negra hiking trail

The Laguna Negra hiking trail passes through Vereda Duce in the municipality of Mongua and Vereda Monguí in the municipality of Monguí. Along the way, there are views of the Páramo landscapes of Siscunsí and Ocetá; the route also passes through stands of frailejones and through Páramo and Subpáramo ecosystems. This route focuses on both the views and the vegetation and ecosystems. Unlike Morro de Use, which offers views of plains, the Sierra Nevada, and valleys, the hiking trail combines named landscape vistas with features along the route. This distinction can help you include a viewpoint and a trail with several landscape features as different nature themes in your trip planning.

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