"San Agustin" a San Agustín Travel Page by MalenaN

San Agustin is a lovely place and you can easily stay here for several days exploring the surroundings and relax. San Agustin is situated at an altitude of 1695 metres and the average temperature is 18 degrees C. During the days I visited the sky was grey the whole time and there was quite a lot of rain, but I heard the days before my visit had been sunny. The town is small with about 2000 inhabitants and many of the houses are painted in white with green details. The landscape of the surroundings is beautiful with green hills and many river valleys.

San Agustin is famous for its many pre-Columbian stone statues. About 500 statues can be found spread out in groups in the region. Little is known about the civilization that lived here. They didn’t have a written language and they were gone before the Europeans arrived . Around the 6th century BC and the 12th century AD seems to have been the period when the civilization bloomed. The stone statues are often guards of tombs.
The Archaeological Park of San Agustin is an Unesco World Heritage Site.