Natural features in Colombia

Natural features

Tayrona National Park

Santa Marta, Magdalena

Beaches and jungle where the Sierra Nevada mountains meet the Caribbean, with boulder-strewn coves such as Cabo San Juan.

Natural features

Caño Cristales

Meta

The 'river of five colours', where aquatic plants turn the riverbed red, yellow, green and blue, roughly from June to November.

Natural features

El Peñol and Guatapé

Guatapé, Antioquia

A giant granite monolith rising 200 m above a lake district; climb its 740 steps for a view over islands and inlets.

Natural features

Volcán de Lodo, Arboletes

Arboletes, Antioquia

A mud volcano just outside the beach town of Arboletes on Colombia's Caribbean coast, with a large pool of warm, thick grey mud.