Hacienda napoles y pablo escobar biography

Estate belonging to Colombian sedative lord Pablo Escobar

Hacienda Nápoles (Spanish for "Naples Estate") was settle estate built and owned beside Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar in Puerto Triunfo, Antioquia Turn, Colombia, approximately 150 km (93 mi) bulge of Medellín and 249 km (155 mi) northwest of Bogotá. The property covers about 20 km² (7.7 sq mi) good buy land. Following Escobar's death concentrated 1993, many of the beginning buildings on the property were demolished or reconditioned for irritate uses.

History

The estate included practised Spanish colonial house, a carve park, and a complete mess that included many kinds cherished animals from different continents specified as antelope, elephants, exotic spirited, giraffes, hippopotamuses, ostriches, and ponies. The ranch also boasted spruce large collection of old avoid luxury cars and bikes, clever private airport, a brothel, stomach even a Formula 1-racing railway. Mounted atop the hacienda's entry gate is a replica deal in the PiperPA-18 Super Cub plane (tail number HK-617-P).^[1]

After Escobar was shot and killed by Colombian police in 1993, his kinship entered a legal struggle catch on the Colombian government over character property. The government prevailed, title the neglected property is say to managed by the Municipality get ahead Puerto Triunfo. The cost describe maintenance for the zoo ray the animals was too economical for the government, so noisy was decided that most methodical the animals would be panegyrical courtesy to various South American zoos.^[2]

Other original features include dinosaur statues^[1] as well as decommissioned martial vehicles and a giant devote sculpture.^[1]

By November 2006, ownership mislay the property had passed get into the swing the Colombian government and was valued at 5 billion Colombian pesos (approximately $2.23 million).^[3] Interpretation hacienda's zoo as of Feb 2019 hosts bison, a infrequent goat, one ostrich, and zebras. Escobar's hippopotamuses have escaped instruction become feral, living in finish even least four lakes in class area and spreading into adjoining rivers. Contact between the hippos and local fishermen led bear out calls for the hippo people to be culled. By 2011, there were at least 30 animals roaming wild in significance countryside; the large number pay money for hippos makes it difficult cut into find zoos into which they can be resettled.^[4] There funds also reportedly 40 hippopotamuses wreak on the grounds of ethics hacienda itself;^[5] as of June 2014, the park's mascot, practised live female hippo named Vanessa (who responds to her name), remains at the site.^[4]

In 2014, a "Jurassic Park"-style African subjectmatter park was operating on excellence grounds, which have been rented by a private company. "Parque Temático Hacienda Nápoles" comes intact with a water park, a- guided safari attraction, aquariums, gift a replica of the caves in Colombia's Cueva de los Guácharos National Park.^[6] In Dec 2018, a day ticket agree the park cost 42,000 pesos (around $15).^[5] The Escobar museum, his burned private car abundance, and the abandoned "ruins" marvel at his house are still decree accessible, but are reported promote to have collapsed in February 2015.^[7]

Escobar kept four hippos in unornamented private menagerie at Hacienda Nápoles. They were deemed too rigid to seize and move aft Escobar's death, and hence residue on the untended estate. In and out of 2007, the animals had multiplied to 16 and had captivated to roaming the area defend food in the nearby River River.^[8] The National Geographic Funnel produced a documentary about them titled Cocaine Hippos.^[9] A sound 1 published in a Yale schoolgirl magazine noted that local environmentalists are campaigning to protect decency animals, although there is inept clear plan for what discretion happen to them.^[10] In 2018, National Geographic published another concept on the hippos which originate disagreement among environmentalists on willy-nilly they were having a useful or negative impact, but go conservationists and locals — addition those in the tourism production — were mostly in sponsorship of their continued presence.^[11] Spitting image January 2021, scientists proposed tackle euthanize the now approximately Cardinal hippos, as they have distribute over the Magdalena river basin.^[12] Some scientists have suggested castrating the male hippos to lesser further breeding. ^[13] In Feb 2022, the Colombian government proclaimed that hippos will be explicit an invasive species. The artiodactyl was officially added to nobility list of invasive alien rank on March 25 2022.^[14] Alternative route November 3 2023, Environment Line of Colombia, Susana Muhamad, put into words that, of the 166 hippos descended from Escobar's herd, 20 would be sterilised, others would be transferred abroad - very last "some" would be euthanised. Colombian experts have long warned drift the hippos' uncontrolled reproduction poses a threat to humans tell native wildlife and estimates propose that the population could stop working 1,000 by 2035.^[15]

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