{"id":13231,"date":"2026-02-22T20:23:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T20:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/colombias-popular-tayrona-national-park-closes-over-alleged-armed-group-threats\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T20:23:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T20:23:43","slug":"colombias-popular-tayrona-national-park-closes-over-alleged-armed-group-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/colombias-popular-tayrona-national-park-closes-over-alleged-armed-group-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombia\u2019s popular Tayrona national park closes over alleged armed group threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Bogot\u00e1, Colombia \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>The Colombian national parks agency announced the temporary closure of the Tayrona National Park on Tuesday, February 17, citing threats against park staff by armed groups.<\/p>\n<p>Tayrona, located on the country\u2019s northern Caribbean coast, is one of the country\u2019s most visited national parks, attracting as many as 750,000 visitors from around the world each year.<\/p>\n<p>The closure comes amid a war between two criminal organizations fighting to control territory and strategic drug trafficking routes in the region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe National Government&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/latinamericareports.com\/colombias-popular-tayrona-national-park-closes-over-alleged-armed-group-threats\/13651\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bogot\u00e1, Colombia \u2013\u00a0The Colombian national parks agency announced the temporary closure of the Tayrona National Park on Tuesday, February 17, citing threats&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3513,3461],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amerique-du-sud","category-south-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}