Cerros de Mavecure

The Mavicure or Mavecure Hills are a set of three monoliths located southeast of Colombia, more specifically 50 km south of the city of Inírida, on the homonymous river.

 

They belong to the Guiana Shield, the set consists of three hills: Pajarito, Mono, and Mavicure (170, 480, and 712 meters high, respectively), they can only be accessed by river; the travel time is on average two hours.

 

These hills are considered one of the main tourist attractions in the department of Guainía, they are located right in the middle of the Puinave indigenous reserve of El Remanso, and are represented in the department’s coat of arms. In February 2015, Cerro Pajarito was ascended for the second time in its history by the Argentine mountaineers Damián Benegas, Pablo Passera, and Nils Bailey. The previous time was in 1992, by a German expedition. Unlike that time, when it took them two days to climb it, the Argentines reached the summit and descended on the same day.