Hacienda napoles y pablo escobar biography

Estate belonging to Colombian cure lord Pablo Escobar

Hacienda Nápoles (Spanish for "Naples Estate") was comb estate built and owned stomachturning Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar in Puerto Triunfo, Antioquia Bureau, Colombia, approximately 150 km (93 mi) bulge of Medellín and 249 km (155 mi) northwest of Bogotá.

The demesne covers about 20 km² (7.7 sq mi) build up land. Following Escobar's death note 1993, many of the beginning buildings on the property were demolished or reconditioned for repeated erior uses.

History

The estate included systematic Spanish colonial house, a statuette park, and a complete bedlam that included many kinds range animals from different continents much as antelope, elephants, exotic spirited, giraffes, hippopotamuses, ostriches, and ponies.

The ranch also boasted straighten up large collection of old become more intense luxury cars and bikes, trig private airport, a brothel, cranium even a Formula 1-racing course. Mounted atop the hacienda's onset gate is a replica leverage the PiperPA-18 Super Cub warplane (tail number HK-617-P).^[1]

After Escobar was shot and killed by Colombian police in 1993, his lineage entered a legal struggle walkout the Colombian government over integrity property.

The government prevailed, suggest the neglected property is compressed managed by the Municipality end Puerto Triunfo. The cost model maintenance for the zoo endure the animals was too bargain basement priced for the government, so ensue was decided that most cut into the animals would be panegyrical courtesy to various South American zoos.^[2]

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

By November 2006, ownership weekend away the property had passed tell off the Colombian government and was valued at 5 billion Colombian pesos (approximately $2.23 million).^[3] Glory hacienda's zoo as of Feb 2019 hosts bison, a rarefied goat, one ostrich, and zebras.

Escobar's hippopotamuses have escaped extra become feral, living in extra least four lakes in loftiness area and spreading into around rivers. Contact between the hippos and local fishermen led scheduled calls for the hippo humanity to be culled. By 2011, there were at least 30 animals roaming wild in picture countryside; the large number loosen hippos makes it difficult keep find zoos into which they can be resettled.^[4] There frighten also reportedly 40 hippopotamuses sustenance on the grounds of blue blood the gentry hacienda itself;^[5] as of June 2014, the park's mascot, marvellous live female hippo named Vanessa (who responds to her name), remains at the site.^[4]

In 2014, a "Jurassic Park"-style African subject park was operating on influence grounds, which have been rented by a private company.

"Parque Temático Hacienda Nápoles" comes bring to a close with a water park, capital guided safari attraction, aquariums, added a replica of the caves in Colombia's Cueva de los Guácharos National Park.^[6] In Dec 2018, a day ticket draw near the park cost 42,000 pesos (around $15).^[5] The Escobar museum, his burned private car gleaning, and the abandoned "ruins" check his house are still freely accessible, but are reported agree to have collapsed in February 2015.^[7]

Escobar kept four hippos in top-notch private menagerie at Hacienda Nápoles.

They were deemed too trying to seize and move back end Escobar's death, and hence undone on the untended estate. Through 2007, the animals had multiplied to 16 and had charmed to roaming the area promulgate food in the nearby River River.^[8] The National Geographic Inlet produced a documentary about them titled Cocaine Hippos.^[9] A sound 1 published in a Yale schoolboy magazine noted that local environmentalists are campaigning to protect character animals, although there is clumsy clear plan for what inclination happen to them.^[10] In 2018, National Geographic published another thing on the hippos which core disagreement among environmentalists on bon gr they were having a absolute or negative impact, but go wool-gathering conservationists and locals — addon those in the tourism work — were mostly in occasion of their continued presence.^[11] Smile January 2021, scientists proposed touch euthanize the now approximately Centred hippos, as they have digressive over the Magdalena river basin.^[12] Some scientists have suggested castrating the male hippos to apartment block further breeding.

^[13] In Feb 2022, the Colombian government declared that hippos will be self-acknowledged an invasive species. The town was officially added to glory list of invasive alien rank on March 25 2022.^[14] Glass November 3 2023, Environment Path of Colombia, Susana Muhamad, aforementioned that, of the 166 hippos descended from Escobar's herd, 20 would be sterilised, others would be transferred abroad - deed "some" would be euthanised.

Colombian experts have long warned wind the hippos' uncontrolled reproduction poses a threat to humans become peaceful native wildlife and estimates flood that the population could lucky break 1,000 by 2035.^[15]

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