'Monument to the Race and to Mestizo-ship'),[1] simply known as the Monumento a la Raza, was a concrete-and-steel outdoor sculpture and monument in the city of Neiva, Huila, Colombia.

[6] The Monumento a la Raza featured three partly-naked people, a Spanish conquistador who raised his left fist in the air and embraced an indigenous woman, who held their mestizo child.

[5] According to a writer from Pitalito Noticias, it described José Eustasio Rivera's "cultural syncretism pointing to the immensity of the land of promise".

[5] After its destruction, Rojas explained that the sculpture depicted the cynicism of the conquistadors and criticized and satirized the la Raza expression, an ideology related to the process of racial intermixing between the colonizers and the indigenous populations which resulted in the union of both cultures, caricaturing Spanish hypocrisy on the colonization period.

At the same time, Rojas questioned the demolition of the monument sociologically, as demonstrators did not complain about their Spanish roots and traditions, such as bullfighting.