Santacruz zoo, Zoo in San Antonio del Tequendama, Colombia
Santacruz Zoo is a facility in San Antonio del Tequendama that houses animals from Colombia and around the world in separate enclosures. The grounds feature distinct areas where visitors can observe primates, reptiles, and other species in designed habitats.
Gonzalo Chacón Rueda opened the zoo on 3 May 1975 to help care for wild animals seized by INDERENA, Colombia's natural resources institute. It joined the Colombian association of zoos and aquariums in 1994 and the Latin American association ALPZA in 2003, and was certified under ISO 9001:2008 in 2011 and 2014.
The zoo's education centre runs workshops for children and young people, and on Sundays and public holidays it offers activities such as a danta and Bengal tiger interpretation workshop, a craft session making a danta puppet, and workshops in the orchid house.
The zoo opens daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; the Esperanto source gives 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. A round-trip passport for adults, valid Monday to Saturday, is sold at the transport terminal and at the Cooperativa de transportes del Tequendama agency. The site covers 32,000 square metres and has a car park, toilets, cafeterias and a restaurant.
The zoo's 32,000 m² grounds hold seven animal classes, among them 14 primate species such as the black spider monkey, the night monkey and the baboon. The Miller's saki does not appear in the sources; the primate list is the documented one.
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