2024

ARQUIDIOCESANO MUSEUM

Museums

Inaugurated in 1911 by Bishop Antonio Ramon Silva Garcia to celebrate the first centenary of the Declaration of Independence, the Diocese Museum moved in 1941 in this beautiful basilica, which contains a small collection of religious art, a mummy, a bell dated 909 and the portraits of successive bishops of Mérida.

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2024

PARQUE ZOOLÓGICO CHORROS DE MILLA

Zoo

Landscape and romantic waterfalls. On the other hand, the animals are a little in the dark. Notably the puma and the famous glasses bear (Tremarctos ornatus), a threatened animal from the Andes. To my knowledge, it has not been seen for five years, it is the 3rd largest bear among the 8 species. In the last two years, however, efforts are being made, both in terms of the spatial planning and the living conditions of animals.

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2024

PARQUE NACIONAL SIERRA DE LA CULATA

Parks and gardens

The road stops and there is a green road climbing in the freshness of the páramo, 4 737 m, where some try paragliding. In the woods, monkeys and toucans give the reply. Hiking from Mérida to Mucuchíes. It was declared a national park in 1989.

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2024

BOTANICAL GARDEN

Parks and gardens

In the north of the city, the garden of the Faculty of Sciences, a true living museum, was created in 1991 by the University of the Andes (U.L.A.), which then yielded 44 hectares to its headquarters. You can see the Sierra Nevada. Its limits range from the northeast to the road leading to Los Chorros de Milla, by the south at Alberto Carnevali avenue and by the east at the Faculty of Forestry. At weekends you can enjoy the.

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