Colombia preparing tropical paradise for tourism after 500 years of chaos

Government seeking sustainable tourism instead of illegal occupation
by Adriaan Alsema January 31, 2023

Colombia’s government is trying to promote responsible tourism on the “Rosario Islands” national park after 500 years of colonial and illegal occupation.

The country’s National Parks authority is carefully trying to promote sustainable tourism to the Caribbean archipelago’s 27 islands while the National Land Agency is trying to end the islands’ 500-year-history of illegal occupation.

At the same time, the Environment Ministry has been trying to repair the damage done to the Rosario Islands’ unique underwater ecosystem and its coral reefs in particular.

Refuge from colonial rule

Like much of the northern coast of what are now Colombia and Venezuela, the Rosario Islands’ original inhabitants were the Caribe people, according to Spanish chroniclers and Colombian archaeologists.

These indigenous inhabitants quickly succumbed after the European colonists claimed the islands and made Cartagena one of the Spanish Crown’s main slave market on South America’s Caribbean coast in the early 15th century.

More:
https://colombiareports.com/colombia-trying-to-repair-island-paradise-for-tourists-after-500-years-of-chaos/





























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