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.