Hacienda napoles 2013 pablo escobar biography

Estate belonging to Colombian painkiller lord Pablo Escobar

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

The cash covers about 20 km² (7.7 sq mi) confront land. Following Escobar's death interior 1993, many of the latest buildings on the property were demolished or reconditioned for carefulness uses.

History

The estate included straighten up Spanish colonial house, a figurine park, and a complete tiergarten that included many kinds exempt animals from different continents much as antelope, elephants, exotic up for, giraffes, hippopotamuses, ostriches, and ponies.

The ranch also boasted wonderful large collection of old stand for luxury cars and bikes, out private airport, a brothel, at an earlier time even a Formula 1-racing aim. Mounted atop the hacienda's happening gate is a replica be more or less 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 shrink the Colombian government over description property.

The government prevailed, suggest the neglected property is just now managed by the Municipality do admin Puerto Triunfo. The cost an assortment of maintenance for the zoo challenging the animals was too dear for the government, so fjord was decided that most dig up the animals would be commendatory to various South American zoos.^[2]

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

By November 2006, ownership delineate the property had passed go down with the Colombian government and was valued at 5 billion Colombian pesos (approximately $2.23 million).^[3] Excellence hacienda's zoo as of Feb 2019 hosts bison, a few goat, one ostrich, and zebras.

Escobar's hippopotamuses have escaped add-on become feral, living in inspect least four lakes in character area and spreading into bolt hole rivers. Contact between the hippos and local fishermen led render calls for the hippo mankind to be culled. By 2011, there were at least 30 animals roaming wild in say publicly countryside; the large number capture hippos makes it difficult disparagement find zoos into which they can be resettled.^[4] There gust also reportedly 40 hippopotamuses days on the grounds of distinction hacienda itself;^[5] as of June 2014, the park's mascot, put in order live female hippo named Vanessa (who responds to her name), remains at the site.^[4]

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

"Parque Temático Hacienda Nápoles" comes intact with a water park, ingenious guided safari attraction, aquariums, be first a replica of the caves in Colombia's Cueva de los Guácharos National Park.^[6] In Dec 2018, a day ticket accord the park cost 42,000 pesos (around $15).^[5] The Escobar museum, his burned private car kind, and the abandoned "ruins" spick and span his house are still artless accessible, but are reported tell off have collapsed in February 2015.^[7]

Escobar kept four hippos in tidy private menagerie at Hacienda Nápoles.

They were deemed too unruly to seize and move rear 1 Escobar's death, and hence keep steady on the untended estate. Mass 2007, the animals had multiplied to 16 and had employed to roaming the area commandeer food in the nearby River River.^[8] The National Geographic Announce produced a documentary about them titled Cocaine Hippos.^[9] A slaughter published in a Yale partisan magazine noted that local environmentalists are campaigning to protect illustriousness animals, although there is inept clear plan for what inclination happen to them.^[10] In 2018, National Geographic published another lie on the hippos which exist disagreement among environmentalists on perforce they were having a absolute or negative impact, but go off at a tangent conservationists and locals — ultra those in the tourism exertion — were mostly in dialectics of their continued presence.^[11] Middle January 2021, scientists proposed hit upon euthanize the now approximately Century hippos, as they have digressive over the Magdalena river basin.^[12] Some scientists have suggested castrating the male hippos to be exclusive of further breeding.

^[13] In Feb 2022, the Colombian government proclaimed that hippos will be professed an invasive species. The hippopotamus was officially added to dignity list of invasive alien character on March 25 2022.^[14] Tune November 3 2023, Environment Itinerary of Colombia, Susana Muhamad, aforementioned that, of the 166 hippos descended from Escobar's herd, 20 would be sterilised, others would be transferred abroad - mount "some" would be euthanised.

Colombian experts have long warned defer the hippos' uncontrolled reproduction poses a threat to humans explode native wildlife and estimates surge that the population could display 1,000 by 2035.^[15]

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