Route: “SACHICASAURUS VITAE”, The Largest Pliosaur In The World!

General Description

The tour begins with a professional historical explanation of the architectural doctrine of the municipality, in the central plaza, the town’s olive tree park: the church, the atrial cross of the VXII century and the stone of the punishment; monumental vestiges of the past of Sáchica and the region, traces of the meeting of the worlds: Spanish and indigenous and evidence of the evangelization and the Spanish conquest that took place in these latitudes and that marks the beginning of the town in the style of the Spanish layout, a populated center where the local history and the identity of the community will be developed.

We will climb the Mount of Calvary, where the last scene of Jesus’ life takes place every Holy Week: his crucifixion, as part of the celebration of the “live holy week”, a play with 30 scenes and local actors declared intangible cultural heritage of the municipality, this mountain is also an outcrop of a seabed 200 million years ago, with the presence of ammonites and plaster material, it is also a splendid viewpoint from where you can appreciate the valley of Sáchica that allows to explain the local history and the emergence of the Andes.

We will advance through traditional roads putting us in contact with the daily life and the local culture, in the middle of own landscapes of the territory, cultivations, streams and gullies, that allow us to enjoy our cultural landscape and to enter in context of what was a sea 140 million years ago until arriving at the sector of the plains of the Arrayán path, where they rest the fossil remains of the biggest Polisario of the world found to date and one of the most complete, according to the paleontological studies carried out on this piece; This finding was world news because it is a new species for science and shows our great paleontological richness. There we will explain the fossil, its characteristics, importance and process of finding, extracting and adapting it.