The Global Meaningful Travel Map

La Macarena: Macarena de Colores

Discover vibrant ecosystems where rivers converge, stunning landscapes like Caño Cristales, and engage in sustainable tourism that supports local communities.

OUR EXPERIENCES
Visit the place where the Andres, the Amazon and the Orinoco all come together, creating a mixture of these three ecosystems. The landscape shows amazing colors and corners, like one of the most prominent: Caño Cristales, where 5 colors create a scenery whose images have gone around the world. Rural communities in this area, previously hit by war, coca crops and the cattle industry, have come together to welcome supportive and conscious tourism and create economic opportunities that will prevent the need to cut down the jungle trees. When you visit the "Macarena de Colores" project, you will meet some of the most beautiful and sublime natural spots in Colombia, like the famous Caño Cristales, the Stillness Lagoon, the Angosturas torrent, the petroglyphs made thousands of years ago by the Guayabero indigenous tribe, the City of Stone´s rocky formations, or the colorful streams like Aguas Claras or Color´s torrent. All these places are filled with magic and natural connection. In our community, a union of 5 counties, we offer rural farmer accommodation, rural gastronomy, hikes on our farms and at the Macarena or Tinigua Natural National Parks. You can also enjoy flora and wildlife watching, horseback riding, birdwatching, canoeing at the Stillness Lagoon, and navigations at the Guayabero River.

ABOUT US
This tour is operated by Colombia Oculta. We are explorers of the immensity, of the hidden and remote spots in Colombia. We are explorers who want to know nature and people´s essence. Explorers who visit a hummingbird or a family in the furthest region in the jungles; places where you have to go by using all the possible transportation media, crossing all the mountains, rivers, savannas, desserts, and oceans. We are jungle, hill, rock, tribe, flood, Guianese formation, pictogram, and especially MAGIC!

OUR IMPACT
Thanks to this project the communities have created strategies to build community jobs related to ecotourism and rural tourism. By using these strategies, income has been produced for the community, becoming a great sustainability model for other communities in the region. Under this purpose, it has been achieved the conservation of more than 500 hc of native forest, which used to be logged for the community income. ProColombia partnered with Tourism Cares on a Meaningful Travel Map in advance of the Tourism Cares with Colombia Meaningful Travel Summit in November, 2021. The pins on the Colombia Map represent community tourism experiences around the country, offered by receptive operators who design their tours for local impact, economic benefit for communities, and to reflect the richness of the experiences you can have traveling throughout Colombia. Their work, and the organizations they support, diffuse the economic benefits of tourism and support sustainable tourism growth in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

The Turismo Comunitario Map can be found on the ProColombia website: https://colombia.travel/en/tourism-cares

DETAILS
Please note: these community tourism experiences are offered by in-country operators. We marked the Map with the approximate location of the community experience.