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Museo del Oro (Gold Museum), Bogotá
The world's largest collection of pre-Columbian gold artifacts with over 55,000 pieces from Colombia's ancient civilizations.
20 km · about 25 min drive
Cundinamarca, Colombia · South America
Funza is worth a stop: 10 minutes from Madrid, 56km from Lake Guatavita.
Funza is a city located in Cundinamarca, Colombia. With a population of 116,890, it is an important destination in South America.
On a road trip, Funza sits in Colombia, where you drive on the right. It's in the America/Bogota time zone. Below you'll find where to stay, things to do nearby, and everything you need to add Funza to your route.
Funza (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈfunsa]) is a municipality and town of Colombia in the Western Savanna Province, of the department of Cundinamarca. Funza is situated on the Bogotá savanna, the southwestern part of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense with the urban centre at an altitude of 2,548 metres (8,360 ft). In Funza theRead more
La Florida wetland, part of the wetlands of Bogotá, a remnant of the Pleistocene Lake Humboldt, still exists. The town is part of the Metropolitan Area of Bogotá and borders Madrid and Tenjo in the north, Mosquera in the south, Madrid in the west and Cota and the locality Engativá of the capital Bogotá in the east. The eastern boundary is formed by the Bogotá River. Funza is the site of the former main settlement Bacatá of the Muisca Confederation. Modern Funza was founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada during the Spanish conquest of the Muisca on April 20, 1537.
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Funza is located in Cundinamarca, Colombia, South America. The coordinates are 4.7164 latitude, -74.2120 longitude.
Funza has a population of approximately 116,890 people, making it a city in Colombia.
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5 notable places within an hour's drive.
museum
The world's largest collection of pre-Columbian gold artifacts with over 55,000 pieces from Colombia's ancient civilizations.
20 km · about 25 min drive
scenic viewpoint
A mountaintop church and shrine at 3,152 meters offering sweeping views over Bogotá, reachable by funicular, cable car, or a steep pilgrim trail.
21 km · about 25 min drive
restaurant
A vast, chaotic parrilla-nightclub in Chia north of Bogota, packed floor to ceiling with scrap-metal art and trinkets, where the menu runs to dozens of pages and dinner turns into dancing.
22 km · about 25 min drive
cathedral
A unique underground Roman Catholic church built within the tunnels of a salt mine 200 meters below the surface.
42 km · about 50 min drive
natural wonder
A near-perfect circular crater lake in the Andes above Bogota, the Muisca ritual site that gave rise to the El Dorado legend where chiefs were gilded and offerings thrown into the water.
56 km · about 65 min drive
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Tropical latitude: plan around the wet season rather than temperature.
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