The Hotel Del Salto´s Chilling Story
The Hotel Del Salto, also known as The Tequendama Falls Hotel, is located in Cundinamarca, Colombia, approximately 30 km from Bogotá, in the Soacha department.
The Hotel Del Salto, also known as The Tequenda ma Falls Hotel, is located in Cundinamarca, Colombia, approximately 30 km from Bogotá, in the Soacha department. The hotel sits directly across from a 180-meter-high natural waterfall, Tequendama Falls.
Hotel Del Salto, when translated to English, means ¨hotel of the leap¨ and can also be translated to ¨hotel of the fall¨. The hotel was originally a residential home to an architect named Carlos Arturo Tapias; it did not become a hotel until 1928. It remained in operation for the next 60 years.
In 1950 they even started constructing an 18-floor hotel; however, the construction never began, and the original hotel became too damaged to operate. Over the years tourism decreased to the hotel, and with the increasing trash, human waste, and industrial pollution in the Bogota river the smell became unbearable. The hotel was closed in 1990.
Tequendama can be translated to ¨he who precipitated downward¨. In the Chibcha language of the Muisca people. The natives to the land before the Spanish invasion…
