Best Beaches:Santa Marta Colombia

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Founded in 1525 by Roger de Bastidas, Santa Marta
is ideally located for visits to the Santa Marta mountain range,
second in height only
to the Andes running through Colombia and two national parks.
While it doesn't have
some of the tourism infrastructure of Cartagena down the coast, it has warm,
clean beaches, many in Tayrona, or Tairona, park.
Santa Marta, on Colombia's Caribbean coast, boasts
a fine natural harbor (see photo) and splendid views, but that's only part of the
reason the Spaniards chose it for their first settlement.
Their choice was influenced by gold.
The local Tairona indigenous communities were known for their goldsmithing work.




Now, the Tairona Heritage Studies Centre is
devoted to the study of the indigenous groups
which inhabit the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta.