importunt facts about Colombia -Near the city of Ipiales, there is a gothic church where legend has it that an image of the Virgin Mary appeared in the mid-18th century on an enormous rock above a nearby river -A unique Colombian dish hormiga culona, consists largely of fried ants -The ancestry of the Colombian people includes Indian, Spanish and African -The Lost City, or Ciudad Perdida, was discovered in Colombia in 1976 and is one of the most important pre-Hispanic monuments in the Continent -The world’s wettest inhabited place is Buenaventura, Colombia. It gets about 265 inches (673 centimeters) of rain a year -Although Colombia is famous for it’s coffee, the coffee plant actually originated in Ethiopia and was brought to South Amercia