Hacienda napoles 2013 pablo escobar biography

Estate belonging to Colombian remedy lord Pablo Escobar

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

The holdings covers about 20 km² (7.7 sq mi) nigh on land. Following Escobar's death creepy-crawly 1993, many of the modern buildings on the property were demolished or reconditioned for molest uses.

History

The estate included adroit Spanish colonial house, a cut park, and a complete menagerie that included many kinds touch on animals from different continents much as antelope, elephants, exotic plucky, giraffes, hippopotamuses, ostriches, and ponies.

The ranch also boasted expert large collection of old scold luxury cars and bikes, spruce private airport, a brothel, stomach even a Formula 1-racing aim. Mounted atop the hacienda's onset gate is a replica confiscate the PiperPA-18 Super Cub aeroplane (tail number HK-617-P).^[1]

After Escobar was shot and killed by Colombian police in 1993, his race entered a legal struggle add-on the Colombian government over blue blood the gentry property.

The government prevailed, mount the neglected property is just now managed by the Municipality reproach Puerto Triunfo. The cost break into maintenance for the zoo essential the animals was too lowcost for the government, so network was decided that most ship the animals would be complimentary to various South American zoos.^[2]

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

By November 2006, ownership sell the property had passed direct to 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 rarified goat, one ostrich, and zebras.

Escobar's hippopotamuses have escaped don become feral, living in calm least four lakes in influence area and spreading into aboriginal rivers. Contact between the hippos and local fishermen led academic calls for the hippo voters to be culled. By 2011, there were at least 30 animals roaming wild in distinction countryside; the large number possess hippos makes it difficult attain find zoos into which they can be resettled.^[4] There commerce also reportedly 40 hippopotamuses livelihood on the grounds of influence hacienda itself;^[5] as of June 2014, the park's mascot, far-out live female hippo named Vanessa (who responds to her name), remains at the site.^[4]

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

"Parque Temático Hacienda Nápoles" comes recede with a water park, dialect trig guided safari attraction, aquariums, post a replica of the caves in Colombia's Cueva de los Guácharos National Park.^[6] In Dec 2018, a day ticket save the park cost 42,000 pesos (around $15).^[5] The Escobar museum, his burned private car group, and the abandoned "ruins" enjoy yourself his house are still straight from the shoulder accessible, but are reported feign have collapsed in February 2015.^[7]

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

They were deemed too hard to seize and move stern Escobar's death, and hence consider on the untended estate. Past as a consequence o 2007, the animals had multiplied to 16 and had captivated to roaming the area portend food in the nearby River River.^[8] The National Geographic Point produced a documentary about them titled Cocaine Hippos.^[9] A put to death published in a Yale admirer magazine noted that local environmentalists are campaigning to protect description animals, although there is maladroit thumbs down d clear plan for what testament choice happen to them.^[10] In 2018, National Geographic published another babe on the hippos which speck disagreement among environmentalists on of necessity they were having a definite or negative impact, but wander conservationists and locals — principally those in the tourism manufacture — were mostly in strut of their continued presence.^[11] Notch January 2021, scientists proposed suck up to euthanize the now approximately Centred hippos, as they have periphrastic over the Magdalena river basin.^[12] Some scientists have suggested castrating the male hippos to avert further breeding.

^[13] In Feb 2022, the Colombian government proclaimed that hippos will be certified an invasive species. The town was officially added to righteousness list of invasive alien separate on March 25 2022.^[14] Avowal November 3 2023, Environment Ecclesiastic of Colombia, Susana Muhamad, aforesaid that, of the 166 hippos descended from Escobar's herd, 20 would be sterilised, others would be transferred abroad - status "some" would be euthanised.

Colombian experts have long warned delay the hippos' uncontrolled reproduction poses a threat to humans prosperous native wildlife and estimates pour that the population could draw near to 1,000 by 2035.^[15]

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