Paredón de los Mártires, Independence monument in Bosque de la República, Tunja, Colombia.

Paredón de los Mártires is a monument in the Bosque de la República in Tunja made of the original adobe wall where four independence leaders were shot on 29 November 1816. The wall still shows the bullet holes left by the shots. In front of it stand the busts of José Cayetano Vásquez and Juan Nepomuceno Niño on marble columns, set on a stepped marble base bearing the coat of arms of Tunja and their names.

On November 29, 1816, the governors of Tunja province José Cayetano Vásquez and Juan Nepomuceno Niño, along with José Joaquín Camacho and Lieutenant Colonel José Ramón Lineros, were executed at this adobe wall after being found guilty of revolution against Spanish rule. That morning an infantry parade led them past the church of San Laureano, where they were forced to kneel for absolution before being shot at ten. Their bodies were left on display and later buried in a common grave at the San Laureano chapel. In 1916, during the independence centenary, their remains were exhumed and reburied in Tunja Cathedral.

The inscription 'Eternamente vive quien muere por la patria' (He who dies for the homeland lives eternally) is linked to the 1916 centenary of the executions, when the remains of the four martyrs were exhumed from the common grave at the Ermita de San Laureano and reburied in Tunja Cathedral. The site is used for commemorative ceremonies each November 29.

The monument stands inside the Bosque de la República in Tunja, with the adobe wall facing the marble busts of Vásquez and Niño on their stepped base bearing the city shield. The wall is outdoors and uncovered, so the bullet holes are best examined in dry weather. The site is a short walk from the church of San Laureano, where the four were absolved and later buried in a common grave.

The bullet holes embedded in the adobe wall are original marks from the 1816 executions and remain visible to this day. These holes create a direct physical link to the past and help visitors grasp the reality of what happened at this location.