Jaime Duque, Theme park in Tocancipá, Colombia

Jaime Duque is a theme park in Tocancipá, Cundinamarca, Colombia. Its white Taj Mahal replica has a ribbed red-banded dome, four slender minarets and pointed arches with dark-green panels, set behind a lawn and balustrades below a forested hill. The grounds cover over 100 hectares with lakes, wetlands and high Andean forest, and include a relief map of Colombia at 1:25000 scale, a Caribbean Sea map with the destroyer ARC Córdoba, the Wakatá Biopark and a 38-metre monument of a hand holding a copper globe.

Pilot Jaime Duque Grisales founded the park in 1983 after retiring from Avianca and devoted the final years of his life to building this educational space. The project evolved from a small collection of monument replicas into a full leisure and conservation complex with a zoo.

The Cyclorama walkway displays hand-painted murals showing key moments of Colombia's independence, including the 1781 Revolution and the 1819 battles. The 165-meter gallery guides visitors through these historical scenes in chronological order.

The location sits around 37 kilometers from Bogotá's Zona Rosa and is well connected by the main highway toward Tocancipá. Best visiting times are on weekdays when the grounds are less crowded, with most attractions remaining open during weekends.

The Wakatá Biopark opened in 1991 and is run with technical advice from La Salle University, training students in the study and handling of wild species. It takes in animals confiscated by environmental authorities, cares for them and then decides on a permanent home or release. It holds about 200 species, among them birds, monkeys, snakes and cats, and hosts Colombia's Andean breeding programme for releasing Andean condors.