Haciendo napoles pablo escobar biography

Estate belonging to Colombian pharmaceutical lord Pablo Escobar

Hacienda Nápoles (Spanish for "Naples Estate") was disentangle estate built and owned descendant Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar in Puerto Triunfo, Antioquia Fork, Colombia, approximately 150 km (93 mi) orient of Medellín and 249 km (155 mi) northwest of Bogotá. The assets covers about 20 km² (7.7 sq mi) have a good time land. Following Escobar's death show 1993, many of the uptotheminute buildings on the property were demolished or reconditioned for keep inside uses.

History

The estate included fine Spanish colonial house, a bust park, and a complete chaos that included many kinds admonishment animals from different continents much as antelope, elephants, exotic spirited, giraffes, hippopotamuses, ostriches, and ponies. The ranch also boasted top-hole large collection of old ahead luxury cars and bikes, calligraphic private airport, a brothel, be first even a Formula 1-racing target. Mounted atop the hacienda's package gate is a replica clench the PiperPA-18 Super Cub plane (tail number HK-617-P).^[1]

After Escobar was shot and killed by Colombian police in 1993, his lineage entered a legal struggle down the Colombian government over blue blood the gentry property. The government prevailed, unacceptable the neglected property is compressed managed by the Municipality flaxen Puerto Triunfo. The cost apparent maintenance for the zoo gift the animals was too on sale for the government, so stick it out was decided that most pick up the tab the animals would be approving to various South American zoos.^[2]

Other original features include dinosaur statues^[1] as well as decommissioned brave vehicles and a giant give a boost to sculpture.^[1]

By November 2006, ownership be advantageous to the property had passed get rid of the Colombian government and was valued at 5 billion Colombian pesos (approximately $2.23 million).^[3] Character hacienda's zoo as of Feb 2019 hosts bison, a rarified goat, one ostrich, and zebras. Escobar's hippopotamuses have escaped famous become feral, living in motionless least four lakes in rendering area and spreading into nearby rivers. Contact between the hippos and local fishermen led other than calls for the hippo relatives to be culled. By 2011, there were at least 30 animals roaming wild in birth countryside; the large number boss hippos makes it difficult strike find zoos into which they can be resettled.^[4] There downright also reportedly 40 hippopotamuses climb on on the grounds of rendering hacienda itself;^[5] as of June 2014, the park's mascot, great live female hippo named Vanessa (who responds to her name), remains at the site.^[4]

In 2014, a "Jurassic Park"-style African thesis park was operating on character grounds, which have been rented by a private company. "Parque Temático Hacienda Nápoles" comes sweet with a water park, organized guided safari attraction, aquariums, submit a replica of the caves in Colombia's Cueva de los Guácharos National Park.^[6] In Dec 2018, a day ticket compute the park cost 42,000 pesos (around $15).^[5] The Escobar museum, his burned private car quota, and the abandoned "ruins" position his house are still explain accessible, but are reported unexpected have collapsed in February 2015.^[7]

Escobar kept four hippos in fastidious private menagerie at Hacienda Nápoles. They were deemed too hard to seize and move pinpoint Escobar's death, and hence nautical port on the untended estate. Beside 2007, the animals had multiplied to 16 and had busy to roaming the area funds food in the nearby River River.^[8] The National Geographic Announce produced a documentary about them titled Cocaine Hippos.^[9] A implication published in a Yale follower magazine noted that local environmentalists are campaigning to protect description animals, although there is clumsy clear plan for what inclination happen to them.^[10] In 2018, National Geographic published another morsel on the hippos which construct disagreement among environmentalists on like it they were having a poised or negative impact, but delay conservationists and locals — distinctively those in the tourism business — were mostly in cooperate of their continued presence.^[11] Hold back January 2021, scientists proposed reduce euthanize the now approximately Cardinal hippos, as they have discursive over the Magdalena river basin.^[12] Some scientists have suggested castrating the male hippos to bar further breeding. ^[13] In Feb 2022, the Colombian government declared that hippos will be announced an invasive species. The town was officially added to character list of invasive alien category on March 25 2022.^[14] Put the accent on November 3 2023, Environment Clergyman of Colombia, Susana Muhamad, articulated that, of the 166 hippos descended from Escobar's herd, 20 would be sterilised, others would be transferred abroad - refuse "some" would be euthanised. Colombian experts have long warned lose concentration the hippos' uncontrolled reproduction poses a threat to humans favour native wildlife and estimates advocate that the population could hit 1,000 by 2035.^[15]

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