The Guatapé RockPeñol stone (Tahamà language: Mojarrá), is a 220-meter-high monolith, located in the municipality of Guatapé, Antioquia, Colombia. The rock ofView from the Rock.In the 1950s it was climbed for the first time, it is said that it took more than 5 days. The land where the rock sits is private property. The current heirs of the stone are the Villegas family. Luis Villegas made the rock public in the 1970s and in an alliance between the owner and the mayor of Guatapé, they began painting the rock with the name of GUATAPà since the rock is actually located in the territory of the municipality of Guatape However, because the stone was for a time part of the territory of the municipality of El Peñol and is still part of its identity (and even its name is Piedra del Peñól) said municipality managed to stop this with Law 23 of 1973, according to which no natural tourist site can be painted or crossed out.
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