Serranía de la Lindosa

The Serranía de la Lindosa is a 13 km (8 mi) stretch of cliff in Colombia covered by tens of thousands of painted rock art images.

The rock art was first recorded in the 19th century by Agustin Codazzi, who was mapping the region.

[4][5] Local interpretative guides at the Cerro Azul site within Serranía De La Lindosa have said that the ochre paste was mixed with tree saps to aid in its preservation.

[3] It has been alternatively proposed that the art was made in the last 500 years by indigenous peoples after the initial European discovery of the Americas.

[3] Some authors claim that the art depicts now-extinct South American megafauna, such as ground sloths, gomphotheres, native equines (Hippidion) and macraucheniids;[2] others argue that they likely represent living animals, including domestic species introduced in the Columbian exchange like horses and cows, leading to a younger age estimate.

Photo of a section of the rockface with depictions of various animals and human figures