Pozos Azul, near El Fossil
Later that morning we hired a taxi to visit El Fossil, where in 1977 a man found the intact skeletal
remains of a dolphin-like creature called a Cronosaurus. There’s a small museum on the spot. Then it
was on to the astronomical observatory where the Muisca, the indigenous people, established a site for
religious ceremonies. The Spanish immediately dubbed the site “El Infiernito”—Little Hell—due to the
‘pagan’ practices that took place and possibly also due to the phallic shape of many of the 115
cylindrical stones at the site. Nearby at Pozos Azules—you can follow billowy pine trees down a hill to
a beautiful blue lagoon.
The astronomical observatory-El Infiernito