The Caribbean Sea bordering Parque Tayrona meanders with turquoise charm between Cartagena and Santa Marta, along the northern coast of Colombia. Two thousand years ago, the Tairona Indians flourished here in fishing villages, cultivating the lands. Then, in the 1500’s, the Spanish came, annihilating and pushing the surviving Indians into the adjacent Sierra Nevada mountains.

After gathering their resources over some years, the Indians made a last stand against the Spanish in 1599, b. . .