🇨🇴 Colombia
Colombia has three Andean ranges, two coasts and the best-fortified city in the Spanish Caribbean. Its scenes swing between stone statues in cloud forest, coral-block ramparts built to keep out English fleets, and a capital 2,600 metres above the sea.
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Colombia's altitude does the work: Caribbean heat and coral-stone fortification at sea level, coffee towns with painted balconies in the middle range, and a cold, grey, brick-built capital on a high plateau. Very little of it looks like anywhere else in the Andes.
Architecture
Thick coral-block walls, bastions and flat-roofed houses in strong colours are Cartagena, 1580–1790. Two-storey timber balconies painted in bright bands on steep streets are the coffee zone, 1880–1930. Red brick with dark window bands is Bogotá's twentieth-century idiom, unusual in Latin America.
Landscape
Three parallel mountain ranges with wide hot valleys between them is Colombia and nowhere else. Wax palms 50 m tall over pasture are the Cocora valley. Frailejón plants — furry rosettes on a stalk — mean páramo above 3,200 m.
Period tells
Gold work in a scene points to Muisca or Quimbaya rather than Inca. Trams in Bogotá place you before 1951. Concrete-and-glass towers over surviving colonial blocks in Medellín are post-1990, after the city's rebuild.
A starting shortlist, oldest first. Every one of these makes a round that Colombians can nail and everyone else has to work out.
Upper Magdalena valley, HuilaAncient world
Hundreds of volcanic-stone figures with jaguar mouths guarding burial mounds, by a culture that left no other record.
Sierra Nevada de Santa MartaMedieval
Stone terraces and stairways cut into jungle ridges by the Tairona, abandoned around the Spanish arrival.
Cartagena de IndiasEarly modern
The raid that convinced Spain to spend two centuries and a fortune walling the city in coral stone.
Boyacá bridge, near TunjaThe long 19th century
Bolívar's army came over the flooded llanos and a freezing páramo, and took New Granada in a two-hour fight.
Carrera Séptima, BogotáModern era
The assassination of Gaitán set the centre of the capital on fire and opened a decade known simply as La Violencia.
Colombian history touches ancient & classical, medieval & renaissance, 19th century and the 20th century. Each of those eras has a timed round of its own — the same centuries, but questions drawn from every country in the library, so you find out whether you can date the rest of the period as confidently as you can date Colombia.
Ancient & classical
Colombian moment here: The San Agustín statues carved (100).
Medieval & Renaissance
Colombian moments here: Teyuna — the Lost City — built (800), Francis Drake sacks Cartagena (1586).
19th century
Colombian moment here: The Battle of Boyacá (1819).
20th century
Colombian moment here: The Bogotazo (1948).
Dates, order and places from the moments above. Answers are printed underneath — cover them with a hand if you want to test yourself, or read them out for a quiz round.
1.The San Agustín statues carved — what year?
Answer100
Hundreds of volcanic-stone figures with jaguar mouths guarding burial mounds, by a culture that left no other record.
2.Teyuna — the Lost City — built — what year?
Answer800
Stone terraces and stairways cut into jungle ridges by the Tairona, abandoned around the Spanish arrival.
3.Francis Drake sacks Cartagena — what year?
Answer1586
The raid that convinced Spain to spend two centuries and a fortune walling the city in coral stone.
4.The Battle of Boyacá — what year?
Answer1819
Bolívar's army came over the flooded llanos and a freezing páramo, and took New Granada in a two-hour fight.
5.The Bogotazo — what year?
Answer1948
The assassination of Gaitán set the centre of the capital on fire and opened a decade known simply as La Violencia.
6.Which came first in Colombia — the San Agustín statues carved or Teyuna — the Lost City — built?
AnswerThe San Agustín statues carved, in 100.
Teyuna — the Lost City — built follows in 800, 700 years later.
7.Which came first in Colombia — Francis Drake sacks Cartagena or the Battle of Boyacá?
AnswerFrancis Drake sacks Cartagena, in 1586.
The Battle of Boyacá follows in 1819, 233 years later.
8.Where in Colombia would you drop the pin for the San Agustín statues carved?
AnswerUpper Magdalena valley, Huila
Hundreds of volcanic-stone figures with jaguar mouths guarding burial mounds, by a culture that left no other record.
9.Where in Colombia would you drop the pin for Teyuna — the Lost City — built?
AnswerSierra Nevada de Santa Marta
Stone terraces and stairways cut into jungle ridges by the Tairona, abandoned around the Spanish arrival.
10.How far apart are the oldest and newest Colombian moments in this collection?
Answer1,848 years
From the San Agustín statues carved in 100 to the Bogotazo in 1948.
You don't need a photograph or a map reference. Name a moment — "The San Agustín statues carved, Upper Magdalena valley, Huila" — and the builder fills in the year, drops the pin, writes the factoid and paints a 360° scene you can stand inside. Publish it and it joins this collection for everyone.
Step 1
One line is enough — an event, a place, a year you half-remember. Or let the AI draft five moments around a theme.
Step 2
The year, the exact coordinates and a one-sentence factoid come back filled in. Everything stays editable.
Step 3
A 4K 360° panorama of that place in that year, ready to spin around inside the game.
🇨🇴 Put your own scene on /play/colombia
Credits cover the AI: 1 to auto-fill a moment, 3 to draft five at once, 25 for each 4K panorama. Your map stays yours — you choose whether it's public, unlisted or private.
Moments Colombians want to see in the game. Vote them up — the top of this list gets built next.
Each round drops you into a 360° scene from Colombia's past. Look around for clues — architecture, clothing, technology, landscape — then place the scene on the world map and pick the year. You score up to 5,000 points a round: closer in distance and closer in time both pay. Five rounds make a game.
No. You can play Colombian rounds straight away with no sign-up. Signing in saves your XP, keeps your character progressing through history, and puts you on the leaderboards.
The collection spans 100 to 1948 — from the san agustín statues carved through to the bogotazo. New moments are added as the community suggests them.
Yes, completely free. There is no paywall on rounds, the daily challenge, or the leaderboards.
Yes — that's how the collection grows. Suggest any moment Colombians would recognise instantly, like the san agustín statues carved. Approved suggestions get built into playable 360° rounds and credited on the page.
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