{"id":64678,"date":"2018-10-23T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T18:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/english-colombia-a-megadiverse-country-in-culture-and-nature\/"},"modified":"2018-10-23T15:02:02","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T19:02:02","slug":"colombia-un-pais-megadiverso-en-cultura-y-naturaleza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/colombia-un-pais-megadiverso-en-cultura-y-naturaleza\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombia, a megadiverse country in culture and nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">NEW YORK<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Oct. 23, 2018<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; More than 30 Colombian tourism executives along with 80 buyers from <span class=\"xn-location\">the United States<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-location\">Canada<\/span> will participate at the <i>Colombian Week in <span class=\"xn-location\">North America<\/span>.<\/i><\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpg58cdleft\" style=\"WIDTH: 100%; TEXT-ALIGN: left\" dir=\"ltr\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"prnejpg58cdleft\" title=\" \" border=\"0\" alt=\" \" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/773703\/ProColombia.jpg \"\/><\/div>\n<p>As a megadiverse country in culture and nature, and as an attractive destination for international tourism, <span class=\"xn-location\">Colombia<\/span> takes over the headquarters of Cond\u00e9 Nast at the One World Trade Center in <span class=\"xn-location\">New York<\/span>, and the Toronto Art Gallery in <span class=\"xn-location\">Canada<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>It is the Week of <span class=\"xn-location\">Colombia<\/span> in <span class=\"xn-location\">North America<\/span>, a series of events organized by ProColombia from <span class=\"xn-chron\">October 23<\/span><sup>rd<\/sup> \u00a0to the 25<sup>th<\/sup> \u00a0with the aim of showing the best of the South American country as a tourist destination.<\/p>\n<p>The Ambassador of <span class=\"xn-location\">Colombia<\/span> to <span class=\"xn-location\">the United States<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-person\">Francisco Santos<\/span>, said that &#8220;from the Colombian Embassy in <span class=\"xn-location\">Washington<\/span> and with the support of ProColombia, we will continue to actively promote <span class=\"xn-location\">Colombia<\/span> as a mega-diverse country in nature, culture, a leader in biodiversity and musical tourism. <span class=\"xn-location\">Colombia<\/span> is a center of innovation, a point of tourist access, the home of a dynamic economy and labor force&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>More than 30 Colombian businessmen will participate in the event together with 80 buyers from <span class=\"xn-location\">the United States<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-location\">Canada<\/span> to set up business opportunities in holiday tourism and meetings, receive training on industry trends in various niches and learn about new developments in the sector.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-person\">Flavia Santoro<\/span>, president of ProColombia, affirmed that &#8220;as the second most biodiverse country in the world, with an unparalleled cultural wealth, music that crosses borders, and an enviable geographic position, <span class=\"xn-location\">Colombia<\/span> has all the potential to position itself as a tourist destination of first choice. From ProColombia we seek to promote a sustainable and attractive tourism that generates benefits for all &#8220;.<\/p>\n<p><b>Destination of nature and culture<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">Colombia<\/span> offers nature tourism experiences such as diving, equestrian tourism, hiking, biking tourism, bird and whale watching, and trekking, among others.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018 it obtained the record number of 1,546 bird sightings in a day in the Global Big Day, crowned champion for the second year in a row.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Bogot\u00e1 and Medell\u00edn were integrated into the Creative Cities Network of Unesco, in the music category, in the years 2012 and 2015 respectively; and recently the OAS declared cultural patrimony of the Americas to nine traditional Colombian rhythms.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">Colombia<\/span> is the country of the thousand rhythms, with around 1,025 grouped in 157 genres located in five regions of the Colombian territory: <span class=\"xn-location\">Caribbean<\/span>, Pacific, Andean, Eastern Plains and Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>Photo &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/773703\/ProColombia.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/773703\/ProColombia.jpg<\/a> \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE  ProColombia<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">NEW YORK<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Oct. 23, 2018<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; More than 30 Colombian tourism executives along with 80 buyers from <span class=\"xn-location\">the United States<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-location\">Canada<\/span> will participate at the <i>Colombian Week in <span class=\"xn-location\">North America<\/span>.<\/i><\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpg58cdleft\" dir=\"ltr\">&lt;img id=&quot;prnejpg58cdleft&quot; title=&quot; &quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot; &quot; align=&quot;middle&quot;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64679,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-viajes-y-turismo"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}