Our Lady of the Mountain

[3] The image depicts baby Jesus being held by the Virgin Mary, who is approximately drawn as 1 metre (3 ft 3 in), whilst holding fruit in her right hand.

She appeared miraculously next to a water fall, today called the mantle of the Virgin, in the middle of the peaks of the western Andes, surrounded by dense tropical vegetation in the harbor of Buenaventura, in the city of Santiago de Cali, located in the Inter Andean valley of the Cauca's river.

[4] It is claimed that she appeared miraculously in the 1570s carved as a natural formation in white Quartz stone at the most Western Colombian Andes, called The Choco mountain range, close to the Pacific.

[7] The Superior nun of the convent that was hosting the image had a vision where Our Lady wanted to erect a chapel in the temple in her honor, decorated with figures of Aborigines and native plants, in order to remain in Cali.

[9] This figure of Virgin in Maternity was crowned as Queen of the Colombian Pacific in solemn ceremony carried out by Pope John Paul II in his visit to Santiago de Cali of 1986 and at the 1971 Panamerican Games Stadium.