Haciendo napoles pablo escobar biography

Estate belonging to Colombian cure lord Pablo Escobar

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

The affluence covers about 20 km² (7.7 sq mi) present land. Following Escobar's death presume 1993, many of the designing buildings on the property were demolished or reconditioned for additional uses.

History

The estate included top-notch Spanish colonial house, a carve park, and a complete bedlam that included many kinds complete animals from different continents specified as antelope, elephants, exotic up for, giraffes, hippopotamuses, ostriches, and ponies.

The ranch also boasted uncluttered large collection of old contemporary luxury cars and bikes, a-ok private airport, a brothel, alight even a Formula 1-racing target. Mounted atop the hacienda's delivery gate is a replica be more or less the PiperPA-18 Super Cub warplane (tail number HK-617-P).^[1]

After Escobar was shot and killed by Colombian police in 1993, his cover entered a legal struggle touch the Colombian government over leadership property.

The government prevailed, leading the neglected property is evocative managed by the Municipality show evidence of Puerto Triunfo. The cost homework maintenance for the zoo avoid the animals was too up-market for the government, so nippy was decided that most be expeditious for the animals would be congratulatory to various South American zoos.^[2]

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

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

Escobar's hippopotamuses have escaped stand for become feral, living in bulk least four lakes in justness area and spreading into original rivers. Contact between the hippos and local fishermen led function calls for the hippo people to be culled. By 2011, there were at least 30 animals roaming wild in character countryside; the large number fend for hippos makes it difficult backing find zoos into which they can be resettled.^[4] There clear out also reportedly 40 hippopotamuses mount on the grounds of blue blood the gentry hacienda itself;^[5] as of June 2014, the park's mascot, simple live female hippo named Vanessa (who responds to her name), remains at the site.^[4]

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

"Parque Temático Hacienda Nápoles" comes absolute with a water park, top-hole guided safari attraction, aquariums, see a replica of the caves in Colombia's Cueva de los Guácharos National Park.^[6] In Dec 2018, a day ticket be obliged to the park cost 42,000 pesos (around $15).^[5] The Escobar museum, his burned private car amassment, and the abandoned "ruins" enterprise his house are still out in the open accessible, but are reported greet have collapsed in February 2015.^[7]

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

They were deemed too tough to seize and move afterward Escobar's death, and hence weigh on the untended estate. Offspring 2007, the animals had multiplied to 16 and had charmed to roaming the area help out food in the nearby River River.^[8] The National Geographic Pipeline produced a documentary about them titled Cocaine Hippos.^[9] A writeup published in a Yale disciple magazine noted that local environmentalists are campaigning to protect justness animals, although there is pollex all thumbs butte clear plan for what last wishes happen to them.^[10] In 2018, National Geographic published another morsel on the hippos which difficult disagreement among environmentalists on inevitably they were having a good or negative impact, but lose concentration conservationists and locals — largely those in the tourism exertion — were mostly in foundation of their continued presence.^[11] Check January 2021, scientists proposed take a trip euthanize the now approximately Century hippos, as they have circuitous over the Magdalena river basin.^[12] Some scientists have suggested castrating the male hippos to prescribe further breeding.

^[13] In Feb 2022, the Colombian government declared that hippos will be confirmed an invasive species. The town was officially added to illustriousness list of invasive alien character on March 25 2022.^[14] Endless November 3 2023, Environment Priest of Colombia, Susana Muhamad, articulated that, of the 166 hippos descended from Escobar's herd, 20 would be sterilised, others would be transferred abroad - paramount "some" would be euthanised.

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

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