Chico Park
Colonial hacienda garden sheltering Bogotá's largest stand of century-old, record-tall wax palms.
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This guide to Chico Park in Bogota centers on the towering Quindio wax palms sheltered inside this old hacienda garden, some over a century old and among the tallest palm trees on Earth. It traces how Colombia's national tree survived centuries of being felled for timber and wax before being declared the country's first legally protected plant. Ten of Bogota's thirteen hummingbird species still dart between the trunks, drawn to fountains fed by the Chicu stream.
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