Saquencipá Swamp, Cretaceous PeriodLuis Alberto Acuña

This richly detailed mural (1965-75) recreates the lush tropical landscape of the Saquencipá Valley during the Cretaceous period (135 million years ago). Dense mangroves, bromeliads, and primitive creatures evoke a time when Villa de Leyva was submerged beneath a vast inland sea. Part of Acuña’s late-career focus on Colombian paleontological and mythic heritage, the work merges scientific imagination with poetic vision.