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Eldorado Ceremony
- Series:
- Colombia and the Eldorado Legend
- Catalog codes:
- CopyWrong
- Themes:
- Art | Legends | Tribal Chiefs and Caciques
- Issued on:
- 2004-03-10
- Size:
- 50 x 40 mm
- Colors:
- Multicolor
- Watermark:
- No Watermark
- Printers:
- Fesa S.A.
- Format:
- Stamp
- Emission:
- Commemorative
- Perforation:
- 12¼
- Printing:
- Offset lithography
- Face value:
- 2,800 $ - Colombian peso
- Print run:
- 90,833
- Score:
- 79% Accuracy: Low
- Description:
- Print made by Teodoro De Bry in 1585 showing the tribal chief during the initiation rite.
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Colombia and the Eldorado Legend
- Series:
- Colombia and the Eldorado Legend
- Catalog codes:
- ColnectScrp
- Themes:
- Art | Lakes | Landscapes | Legends | Paintings | Tribal Chiefs and Caciques
- Issued on:
- 2004-03-10
- Colors:
- Multicolor
- Watermark:
- No Watermark
- Printers:
- Fesa S.A.
- Format:
- Mini Sheet
- Emission:
- Commemorative
- Perforation:
- 12¼
- Printing:
- Offset lithography
- Face value:
- 16,800 $ - Colombian peso
- Print run:
- 90,833
- Score:
- 85% Accuracy: Low
- Description:
- Numbered mini sheet of six stamps and three labels.
The sheet is headed by the inscription "Guatavita Lagoon, ritual scene of the El Dorado legend".
El Dorado, spanish for "the golden one"), originally El Hombre Dorado (the golden man), or El Rey Dorado (the golden king), was the term used by the Spanish Empire to describe a mythical tribal chief (zipa) of the Muisca native people of Colombia, who, as an initiation rite, covered himself with gold dust and submerged in Lake Guatavita. The legends surrounding El Dorado changed over time, as it went from being a man, to a city, to a kingdom, and then finally an empire. - Buy Now:
Lake Guatavita
- Series:
- Colombia and the Eldorado Legend
- Catalog codes:
- Mi:CO 2291, Sn:CO 1220b, Yt:CO 1270, Sg:CO 2339, Lt:CO 2285
- Themes:
- Art | Lakes | Paintings
- Issued on:
- CopyWrong
- Size:
- 50 x 40 mm
- Colors:
- Multicolor
- Watermark:
- No Watermark
- Printers:
- Fesa S.A.
- Format:
- Stamp
- Emission:
- Commemorative
- Perforation:
- 12¼
- Printing:
- Offset lithography
- Face value:
- 2,800 $ - Colombian peso
- Print run:
- 90,833
- Score:
- 87% Accuracy: Low
- Description:
- Watercolor Painting by M.Maria Paz
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Lake Guatavita
- Series:
- Colombia and the Eldorado Legend
- Catalog codes:
- Mi:CO 2292, Sn:CO 1220c, Yt:CO 1271, Sg:CO 2340, Lt:CO 2286
- Themes:
- Art | Lakes | Paintings
- Issued on:
- 2004-03-10
- Size:
- 50 x 40 mm
- Colors:
- Multicolor
- Watermark:
- No Watermark
- Printers:
- Fesa S.A.
- Format:
- Stamp
- Emission:
- Commemorative
- Perforation:
- 12¼
- Printing:
- Offset lithography
- Face value:
- 2,800 $ - Colombian peso
- Print run:
- 90,833
- Score:
- 87% Accuracy: Low
- Description:
- VisitColnectCom
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Lake Guatavita
- Series:
- Colombia and the Eldorado Legend
- Catalog codes:
- ColnectIsBest
- Themes:
- Art | Lakes
- Issued on:
- from colnect.com
- Size:
- 50 x 40 mm
- Colors:
- Multicolor
- Watermark:
- No Watermark
- Printers:
- Fesa S.A.
- Format:
- Stamp
- Emission:
- Commemorative
- Perforation:
- 12¼
- Printing:
- Offset lithography
- Face value:
- 2,800 $ - Colombian peso
- Print run:
- 90,833
- Score:
- 84% Accuracy: Low
- Description:
- Print made by A.Humboldt Thibault and F.Schoell in 1813.
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Lake Guatavita
- Series:
- iInfringe
- Catalog codes:
- Mi:CO 2294, Sn:CO 1220e, Yt:CO 1273, Sg:CO 2342, Lt:CO 2288
- Themes:
- ColnectScrp
- Issued on:
- 2004-03-10
- Size:
- iInfringe
- Colors:
- ColnectIsBest
- Watermark:
- VisitColnectCom
- Printers:
- ColnectIsBest
- Format:
- VisitColnectCom
- Emission:
- ColnectIsBest
- Perforation:
- CopyWrong
- Printing:
- VisitColnectCom
- Face value:
- ColnectIsBest
- Print run:
- CopyWrong
- Score:
- from colnect.com
- Description:
- Photography by Fernando Urbina Rangel
Lake Guatavita is located in the Cordillera Oriental of the Colombian Andes in the municipality of Sesquilé, in the Almeidas Province, Cundinamarca department of Colombia, 57 kilometres (35 mi) north-east of Bogotá, capital of Colombia.
The lake is circular and has a surface area of 19.8 hectares. The earlier theories of the crater's origin being a meteorite impact, volcanic cinder, or limestone sinkhole are now discredited. The most likely explanation is that it resulted from the dissolution of underground salt deposits from an anticline, resulting in a kind of sinkhole.
There are hot springs nearby in the municipality of Sesquilé, which means "hot water".
While the existence of a sacred lake in the Eastern Ranges of the Andes, associated with Indian rituals involving gold, was known to the Spanish possibly as early as 1531, its location was only discovered in June 1537 by conquistador Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada while on an expedition to the highlands of the Eastern Ranges of the Andes in search of gold. This brought the Spanish into first contact with the Muisca inhabiting the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, including around Lake Guatavita.
The lake is now a focus of ecotourism, and its association with the legend of El Dorado is also a major attraction - Buy Now:
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Lake Guatavita
- Series:
- Colombia and the Eldorado Legend
- Catalog codes:
- Mi:CO 2295, Sn:CO 1220f, Yt:CO 1274, Sg:CO 2343, Lt:CO 2289
- Themes:
- Art | Lakes
- Issued on:
- ColnectIsBest
- Size:
- 50 x 40 mm
- Colors:
- Multicolor
- Watermark:
- No Watermark
- Printers:
- Fesa S.A.
- Format:
- Stamp
- Emission:
- Commemorative
- Perforation:
- 12¼
- Printing:
- Offset lithography
- Face value:
- 2,800 $ - Colombian peso
- Print run:
- 90,833
- Score:
- 88% Accuracy: Low
- Description:
- VisitColnectCom
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Muisca Raft (left)
- Series:
- Colombia and the Eldorado Legend
- Catalog codes:
- Mi:CO 2296, Sn:CO 1221a, Lt:CO HF59a
- Themes:
- Golden Objects
- Issued on:
- ColnectIsBest
- Size:
- 50 x 40 mm
- Colors:
- Multicolor
- Watermark:
- No Watermark
- Printers:
- Fesa S.A.
- Format:
- Stamp
- Emission:
- Commemorative
- Perforation:
- 12¼
- Printing:
- Offset lithography
- Face value:
- 1,700 $ - Colombian peso
- Print run:
- 140,000
- Score:
- 78% Accuracy: Low
- Description:
- Stamp from souvenir sheet showing the left part of the famous golden Muisca
raft gurded in the Gold Museum of Bogotá, Colombia. - Buy Now:
Muisca Raft (right)
- Series:
- Colombia and the Eldorado Legend
- Catalog codes:
- Mi:CO 2297, Sn:CO 1221b, Lt:CO HF59b
- Themes:
- Golden Objects
- Issued on:
- 2004-03-10
- Size:
- 41 x 51 mm
- Colors:
- Multicolor
- Watermark:
- No Watermark
- Printers:
- Fesa S.A.
- Format:
- Stamp
- Emission:
- Commemorative
- Perforation:
- 12¼
- Printing:
- Offset lithography
- Face value:
- 2,000 $ - Colombian peso
- Print run:
- 140,000
- Score:
- 73% Accuracy: Low
- Description:
- VisitColnectCom
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2-8-2 at Pacific Coast
- Series:
- Locomotives of Colombia
- Catalog codes:
- Mi:CO 2298, Sn:CO 1222a, Yt:CO 1253, Sg:CO 2345, Lt:CO 2290
- Themes:
- Locomotives | Railways | Transport
- Issued on:
- 2004-03-19
- Size:
- 50 x 40 mm
- Colors:
- Multicolor
- Watermark:
- No Watermark
- Printers:
- Fesa S.A.
- Format:
- Stamp
- Emission:
- Commemorative
- Perforation:
- 12¼
- Printing:
- Offset lithography
- Face value:
- 1,100 $ - Colombian peso
- Print run:
- 250,000
- Score:
- 89% Accuracy: Low
- Description:
- Each printed in sheets of four pairs and two pairs of labels.
Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, 2-8-2 represents the wheel arrangement of two leading wheels on one axle, usually in a leading truck, eight powered and coupled driving wheels on four axles and two trailing wheels on one axle, usually in a trailing truck. - Buy Now: