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El Gato del Río ("The River Cat") is a sculpture by Colombian artist Hernando Tejada. The sculpture was inaugurated on July 3, 1996 and is located on the side of the Cali River in Cali, Colombia . Over time, it has turned into a famous landmark of the city [ 1 ] along with the monument to Sebastián de Belalcázar and Cristo Rey .
Hernando Tejada's most famous work, El gato del río, is a 3.5 meter tall lost-wax cast monumental sculpture of a cat which Tejada executed in 1996 with financial support of the City of Cali. Today, it is the most visited sculpture in Colombia surpassing in popularity public sculptures by Fernando Botero, Édgar Negret, and Enrique Grau. [10]
2002 – April 12: Valle del Cauca Deputies hostage crisis begins. 2004 – Criminal Los Rastrojos active. 2005 – Population: 2,119,908. [1] 2007 – Centro de Eventos Valle del Pacifico built. 2008 – Caliwood film museum opens. 2009 – Masivo Integrado de Occidente (transit system) begins operating. 2010 – Estadio Deportivo Cali ...
Humberto hosted Canal Caracol's reality show “Tengo Una Illusión” in Colombia, and was the anchor and director of the radio show “EL METRO” which aired through the station 1210 am in South Florida. [citation needed] “El Gato” co-hosted the TV show “Todo Bebé” in the U.S. [citation needed]
Boulevard del río Cali: (Colombia Avenue Boulevard) is located by the Cali river side in the historic center of the city of Santiago de Cali, Colombia. It carries the name of the avenue where vehicles used to transit but today is the boulevard where there is a tunnel located directly below it.
Casa del Telegrafista: The Casa del Telegrafista, or Telegraph Operator's House, is a historic site located in Aracataca, Colombia. This house holds significance as it is where Gabriel García Márquez, the Nobel Prize-winning author, spent part of his childhood.
The Caño Cristales (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈkaɲo kɾisˈtales]; English: "Crystal Channel") is a river located in the Serranía de la Macarena, an isolated mountain range in Meta Department, Colombia. It is a tributary of the Guayabero River, itself a part of the Orinoco basin. Caño Cristales was found in 1969 by a group of cattle farmers.
Riosucio is a town and municipality in the department of Caldas in Colombia.It is best known for its biennial carnival, officially called the Carnival of Riosucio but commonly known by its former name of the "Carnival of the Devil", and is one of the biggest and most popular carnivals in Colombia.