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Spanish to English: Travel Website Colombia General field: Marketing Detailed field: Tourism & Travel
Source text - Spanish Colombia es uno de los últimos descubrimientos de Sudamérica para el turismo. Un país muy variado con playas e islas tropicales, encantadores pueblos coloniales, haciendas en las que dormir entre cafetales, montañas de nieves perpetuas, desiertos, selvas y rincones que parecen salidos de una novela de García Márquez. Estos son 8 lugares recomendables en una visita a Colombia.
Paisaje Cultural Cafetero
Es la marca turística que promociona un triángulo montañoso en la cordillera occidental de Colombia, entre las ciudades de Armenia, Pereira y Manizales, donde se cultiva, dicen, el mejor café de Colombia. Lo que quiere decir el mejor café del mundo. Un paisaje domesticado y modelado por el hombre desde hace siglos hasta formar un escenario de suaves y verdes colinas con interminables plantaciones de café, tan perfectas y simétricas como las cuadrículas de un crucigrama. Muchas de las viejas haciendas han sido transformadas en alojamientos rurales.
Cabo-de-la-Vela
La Guajira ocupa el extremo norte del país; una península lejana, aislada, conflictiva, que se adentra en el Caribe y que comparte con Venezuela. Uno de los lugares más interesantes es el Cabo de la Vela, una aldea de humildes ranchitos de yotojoro y una única calle a lo Far West que bien podría haberse caído de una novela de García Márquez. No llega ni la energía eléctrica ni el agua canalizada, y el hospedaje es de lo más básico. Un sitio alejado de todo, pero cada vez más frecuentado por viajeros atraídos por la belleza de un desierto costero de luces inquietantes y colores arrebatadores.
Mompox
Hace tiempo que el tiempo se detuvo en Mompox. En este pueblo perdido en un brazo del bajo Magdalena, a 250 kilómetros de Cartagena, si algo sobra es silencio y sosiego. Fue uno de los puertos fluviales más importantes del río Magdalena durante la colonia. Pero el cauce se fue anegando y los barcos grandes con sus panzas llenas de riquezas cambiaron de ruta. Mompox cayó en el olvido y allí sigue, abrasado por el calor del trópico, con las mismas calles y plazas, las mismas casas coloniales de barro y cañabrava y las mismas iglesias barrocas que si el reloj se hubiera detenido en un soleado mediodía del siglo XVIII.
Villa-de-Leyva
Es una de las 17 localidades agrupadas bajo la marca Pueblos Patrimonio, que trata de proteger y promocionar a esas villas colombianas donde la modernidad no logró arrasar la belleza de su arquitectura popular ni la autenticidad de sus costumbres. Lo más sorprendente de Villa de Leyva es la armonía del conjunto arquitectónico: todas las casas son de estilo colonial, con sus muros enjalbegados y sus ventanas y balcones pintados de verde. Ni un solo ladrillo desentona en este pueblo, que tiene una de las plazas más amplias de Colombia.
Translation - English Colombia is one of the last South American destinations to be discovered by the tourist. A diverse country – that left behind the stigma of cocaine and drug cartels– with beaches and tropical islands, charming colonial towns, estates nestled between coffee plantations, never-ending snowy mountains, deserts, jungles and hideouts that seem to be straight out of a García Marquez novel.
These are 6 recommended places to visit in Colombia.
Isla de Providencia
The most unique and different island in the Latino Caribbean is this small 17 km2 patch of land. Just a stone’s throw from Nicaraguan shores, it has remained under Colombian sovereignty through historical randomness. The locals, of Afro Caribbean descent, have repeatedly denied entry to the hotel chains and mega- tourist projects whose presence would change the face of the island. It’s them that control the touristic establishments instead of large or multinational companies.
Paisaje Cultural Cafetero (Coffee Cultural Landscape)
This tourism brand promotes a mountainous triangle in the western range of Colombia, between the cities of Armenia, Pereira and Manizales where they produce, so it’s said, the best coffee in Colombia. Which means the best coffee in the world. The landscape has been domesticated and moulded by man over centuries to form a view of soft and green hills with unending coffee plantations, as perfect and symmetrical as the grids of a crossword puzzle. Many of the old estates have been converted into rural accommodation.
Cabo de la Vela (La Guajira)
La Guajira sits at the extreme north of the country; a far-away peninsula isolated and troubled it sticks out into the Caribbean and is shared with Venezuela. One of the most interesting places is Cabo de la Vela, a small village of unassuming yotojoro (a type of cactus used for building) ranchers and the only street just like in a Western movie that might just have fallen out of a García Márquez novel. There is no electricity of running water and the accommodation is very basic. A place far away from it all, but it’s becoming more and more visited by travellers attracted by the beauty of a coastal desert of unsettling light and captivating colours.
Leticia
It’s the capital of the Colombian Amazon. A border city formed by avalanches. Leticia is a two hour flight from Bogotá in the middle of the densest jungle and is inaccessible by land. You can only get there by plane or in the slow passenger and cargo boats that run from Iquitos or Manaos which increases the sensation of isolation and justifies the idea of mystery and adventure that the Amazon conjures.
Mompox
Time stopped a long time ago in Mompox. In this lost town in the arm of lower Magdalena, 250 km from Cartagena, if anything is in abundance it’s silence and calm. It was once one of the most important ports of the river Magdalena during colonisation times but the riverbed was flooded and the big ships with their bellies full of riches changed course. Mompox fell into oblivion and stayed there, sweltering in the heat of the tropics with the same streets and squares, the same colonial houses made of mud and bamboo and the same baroque churches as if the clock had stopped on a sunny midday in the 18th century.
Ville de Leyva
One of the 17 regions grouped under the network ‘Pueblos Patrimonio’ an association that tries to protect and promote those Colombian towns where modernity didn’t manage to destroy the beauty of its architecture or the authenticity of its customs. What’s most surprising in Villa de Leyva is the harmony of the matching architecture: all of the houses are colonial style with their whitewash walls and their windows and balconies painted green. Not one brick is out of place in this town that has one of the largest squares in Colombia.
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