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San Agustin Archaeological Park: Mystery Carved in stone.

San Augustine, is one of the magical places of Huila you can not miss. It is the place to walk when you study at school! Perhaps at that age were not paying much attention to the explanations, so today has been great to get back on track, hear and feel the magic of this culture. We enjoyed the family, my children and nephews visited him for the first time, my parents remembered their visit over thirty years! San Augustine never ceases to amaze.

The park is much more care, have recovered a large number of sculptures have been found on farms and others brought from Europe!
Some have been broken by the "looters" to see if they had treasures inside.
On our tour, four hours, we were accompanied by a guide, connoisseur of the culture of St. Augustine who explained to us each sculpture. After the first hour alone we describe some of them.

INFORMATION
Archaeological Park San Agustín, located in the department of Huila, is the only place known for impressive five hundred stone statues carved in accordance with the mythology of the Indian sculptors.
for its historical and cultural importance, the park was declared a Unesco World Heritage in 1995.
Most of the statues was part of funeral paraphernalia of the ancient inhabitants of this region and was associated with burial rites, the spiritual power of the dead and the supernatural world.
The grandeur of the statues and tombstones reflect, today, a complex system of thought of these foreign cultures who understood and explained the world in its own way, carving the mystery and immortalized in stone.
Park consists of:

• four parts (tables), where you can see monumental funerary complexes, stone statues, tombs and mounds;
• Forest of Statues, where they met outdoors 39 statues on the stage of the flora of the region.

civilizations are known to have been agricultural. On the stone statues, sarcophagi and tombs can be inferred that people were developing a very high degree of expressing their religious beliefs and magical through sculpture.
The giant statues were carved in stone on the principles of design, abstraction and symbolism, volume management and space.
Many of the statues, ranging from one to seven feet tall and can weigh over a ton, are focused on the duality of life, the sun and the moon, death and birth.
According to research, the people of St. Augustine, under pressure from aggressive invaders, was forced to leave their land and move to the Amazon and Orinoco. The disappearance occurred between 1300-1400 AD.

To learn more about St. Augustine and other national parks visit: www.icanh.gov.co