Plaza Bolivar

Snowing in Bogota

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November 7th 2007
All the Colombianos are denying it, but come on, we´re from CANADA, and it definately SNOWED. We were too slow to catch the photographic proof of the rigged up truck-tractor-plow clearing the freeway, but it´s in our memory... The weather continues to be loco and, in adition to the snow, there´s more rain on the coast than in the past 100 years and pretty much everywhere in Colombia is covered ... read more

South America » Colombia » Bogota

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Colombia was one of the three countries that emerged from the collapse of Gran Colombia in 1830 (the others are Ecuador and Venezuela). A 40-year insurgent campaign to overthrow the Colombian Government escalated during the 1990s, undergirded in part... ... read more