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Hotel Cacique Real is located in Zipaquira and offers an on-site business center, free WiFi access and a 24-hour front desk. American breakfast is included.

The rooms here feature a flat-screen cable TV, fresh linen and a private bathroom with a shower, free toiletries and clean towels.

Hotel Cacique Real offers an on-site restaurant, a shared lounge and a tour desk that can assist with outings to the Salt Cathedral of Zipaquira or Park Villaveces which are located with a 10-minute walk.

Guests will find an array of activities such as hiking, table tennis and bowling that can be enjoyed at the hotel or nearby.

El Dorado International Airport is located within a 2-hour drive.

Couples in particular like the location – they rated it 9.7 for a two-person trip.

Hotel Cacique Real has been welcoming Booking.com guests since Apr 11, 2014

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Most popular facilities

Free parking

Free WiFi

Facilities for disabled guests

Restaurant

Family rooms

Property Highlights

Top Location: Highly rated by recent guests (9.7)

American, Buffet

Free private parking available at the hotel


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Room Type

Sleeps

 

Comfort Double Room

1 king bed

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Comfort Triple Room

1 twin bed

and

1 full bed

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Classic Double Room

1 full bed

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Classic Quadruple Room

2 twin beds

and

1 full bed

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Junior Suite

1 queen bed

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Twin Room

2 twin beds

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Comfort Quadruple Room

2 twin beds

and

1 full bed

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Deluxe Suite with Spa Bath

Bedroom :

1 king bed

Living room:

1 sofa bed

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Deluxe Suite with Spa Bath

Bedroom :

1 king bed

Living room:

1 sofa bed

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Property questions and answers

Browse questions from guests for anything extra you want to know about the property

The property usually replies within a few days

  • Buenas tardes, me gustaría asegurarme que la habitación que voy a reservar tiene tina.

    Buen día, recordamos que las habitaciones con tina de hidromasaje son la Junior suite y Suite. Esperamos tenerte pronto!

    Answered on July 27, 2021

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    Restaurant

    Food:
    Latin American

Most popular facilities

Free parking

Free WiFi

Facilities for disabled guests

Restaurant

Family rooms

Bathroom

  • Private Bathroom

Outdoors

  • Garden

Activities

  • Cycling
    Off-site

  • Hiking
    Off-site

Food & Drink

  • Fruit

  • Wine/Champagne
    Additional charge

  • Restaurant

Internet

WiFi is available in all areas and is free of charge.

Parking

Free private parking is available on site (reservation is not needed).

  • Parking

Front Desk Services

  • Private check-in/out

  • Tour desk

  • 24-hour front desk

Cleaning Services

  • Daily housekeeping

  • Suit press
    Additional charge

  • Ironing service
    Additional charge

  • Laundry
    Additional charge

Business Facilities

  • Fax/Photocopying
    Additional charge

  • Business center
    Additional charge

  • Meeting/Banquet facilities
    Additional charge

Safety & security

  • Safe

General

  • Shuttle service
    Additional charge

  • Shared lounge/TV area

  • Designated smoking area

  • Heating

  • Family rooms

  • Facilities for disabled guests

Accessibility

  • Toilet with grab rails

  • Wheelchair accessible

  • Hot tub/Jacuzzi

Languages Spoken

  • Spanish

House rules

Hotel Cacique Real takes special requests – add in the next step!

Check-in

From 3:00 PM

Check-out

Until 1:00 PM

Cancellation/
prepayment

Cancellation and prepayment policies vary according to accommodations type.
Please enter the dates of your stay and check what conditions apply to your preferred room.

Children & Beds

Child policies

Children of all ages are welcome.

Children 6 and above are considered adults at this property.

To see correct prices and occupancy info, add the number and ages of children in your group to your search.

Crib and extra bed policies

0 – 2 years

Crib upon request

Free

The number of cribs allowed depends on the option you choose. Check your selected option for more info.

There are no extra beds available at this property.

All cribs are subject to availability.

No age restriction

There’s no age requirement for check-in

Pets

Pets are not allowed.

Cards accepted at this hotel

Hotel Cacique Real accepts these cards and reserves the right to temporarily hold an amount prior to arrival.

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Daily Life – Taino Museum

Lifestyle of Arawak / Taíno

The Arawak/Taíno society was basically a very gentle culture. It was characterized by happiness, friendliness and a highly organized hierarchical, paternal society, and a lack of guile.

Each society was a small kingdom and the leader was called a cacique. The cacique’s function was to keep the welfare of the village by assigning daily work and making sure everyone got an equal share. The relatives of the caciques lived together in large houses in the center of the village. These houses reflect the warmth of the climate and simply used mud, straw and palm leaves. The houses did not contain much furniture. People slept in cotton hammocks or simply on mats of banana leaves. The general population lived in large circular buildings called bohios, constructed with wooden poles, woven straw, and palm leaves.

At the time of Columbus there were five different kingdoms on the island of Hispaniola. The Indians practiced polygamy. Most men had 2 or 3 wives, but the caciques had as many as 30. It was a great honor for a woman to be married to a cacique. Not only did she enjoy a materially superior lifestyle, but her children were held in high esteem.

Housing and Dress

The Arawak/Taíno used two primary architectural styles for their homes. The general population lived in circular buildings with poles providing the primary support and these were covered with woven straw and palm leaves. They were somewhat like North American teepees except rather than being covered with skins they needed to reflect the warmth of the climate and simply used straw and palm leaves.

The caciques were singled out for unique housing. Their house were rectangular and even featured a small porch. Despite the difference in shape, and the considerably larger buildings, the same materials were used. When the Africans came beginning in 1507 they introduced mud and wattle as primary building materials. However, there is no record of the Arawak/Taíno having used these materials.

The house of the cacique contained only his own family. However, given the number of wives he might have, this constituted a huge family. The round houses of the common people were also large. Each one had about 10-15 men and their whole families. Thus any Arawak/Taíno home might house a hundred people.

The houses did not contain much furniture. People slept in cotton hammocks or simply on mats of banana leaves. They also made wooden chairs with woven seats, couches and built cradles for their children.

In addition to houses the typical Arawak/Taíno village contained a flat court in the center of the village which was used for ball games and various festivals, both religious and secular. Houses were around this court. This was a hierarchical society, and while there was only one cacique who was paid a tribute (tax) to oversee the village, there were other levels of sub-caciques, who were not paid, but did hold positions of honor. They were liable for various services to the village and cacique.

Stone making was especially developed among the Arawak/Taíno , but they seem not to have used it at all in building houses. It was primarily used for tools and especially religious artifacts.

The men were generally naked, but the women sometimes wore short skirts. Men and women alike adorned their bodies with paint and shells and other decorations.

Food and Agriculture

The Arawak/Taíno diet, like ours, centered around meat or fish as the primary source of protein. There never were many wild animals to hunt on Hispaniola, but there were some small mammals which were hunted and enjoyed. They also ate snakes, various rodents, bats, worms, birds, in general any living things they could find with the exception of humans. They were able to hunt ducks and turtles in the lakes and sea. The costal natives relied heavily on fishing, and tended to eat their fish either raw or only partially cooked. Since they did grow cotton on the island, the natives had fishing nets made of cotton. The natives of the interior relied more on agriculture and de-emphasized meat or fish in their diet.

The Taíno had a developed system of agriculture which was environmentally friendly and almost maintenance free. They raised their crops in a conuco, a large mound which was devised especially for farming. They packed the conuco with leaves which improved drainage and protected it from soil erosion. One of the primary crops cultivated by the Taíno was cassava or yuca, which they ate as a flat bread. They also grew corn, squash, beans, peppers, sweet potatoes, yams, peanuts as well as tobacco.

(As an aside I would like to comment that many people in the pre-Columbian Americas had virtually work free agriculture. This system meant that people living in these materially simple social systems had enormous amounts of free time and often developed elaborate religious rites which took a lot of their time, but also had highly developed systems of games and recreation. There are some nice advantages to very simple living and diet!)

One of the Arawak/Taíno’s primary crops was cassava. This is a root crop from which a poisonous juice must be squeezed. Then it is baked into a bread like slab. The current method of doing this in Haiti produces a flat bread, sort of like a stale burrito or pizza shell. The Arawak/Taíno grew corn (maize), squash, beans, peppers, sweet potatoes, yams and peanuts.

They not only had cotton, but they raised tobacco and enjoyed smoking very much. It was not only a part of their social life, but was used in religious ceremonies too.

Transportation

The Arawak/Taíno had no large animals like horses, oxen or mules to ride or use for work. But they did have river and sea transportation. They used dugout canoes which were cut from a single tree trunk and used with paddles. They could take 70-80 people in a single canoe and even used them for long travels on the sea. These dugouts allowed fishing the few lakes of Hispaniola as well as fishing out a bit off the coast.

Defense

The Arawak/Taíno themselves were quite peaceful people, but they did have to defend themselves from the Caribs who were cannibals. The Caribs of this area were centered at what is today Puerto Rico, but some did live in northeast Hispaniola, an area that today is the Dominican Republic. The Caribs were war-like cannibals. They often raided the more peaceful Arawak/Taíno , killing off the men, stealing and holding the women for breeding, and fattening the children to eat.

Thus the Arawak/Taíno had some weapons which they used in defense. They used the bow and arrow, and had developed some poisons for their arrow tips. They had cotton ropes for defensive purposes and some spears with fish hooks on the end. Since there were hardwoods on the island, they did have a war club made of macana. This was about 1″ thick and reminds one very much of the cocomaque stick used in later Haitian days. They did not develop any armor or specifically defensive weapons (shields, etc. ).

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Another powerful Puerto Rico magnitude 6.4 earthquake hit the island this week. The devastating earthquake was first felt early Tuesday morning.

Gov. Vander Vasquez Garsed commented on the situation, saying: “We have not experienced such an emergency in 102 years.” This is by far the strongest of the series of aftershocks that have rocked the island since December 28, 2019.of the year.

How strong was the earthquake in Puerto Rico?

On Tuesday there was a 6.4 magnitude earthquake. Richter scale. It is believed to be the most devastating earthquake in Puerto Rico in the last hundred years, causing hundreds of people to flee their homes.

It has been reported that people are now taking to the streets as their homes have been affected by the disaster. The people of Puerto Rico were left without power as widespread power outages were witnessed across the island. nine0003

Buildings collapsed all over the island, including schools, hospitals, churches and people’s homes. It is believed that hundreds may have been injured and one person has been confirmed dead so far.

Tuesday’s 6.4 quake followed a 5.8 quake just a day before much of the island and its people were in complete shock and tragedy.

What Puerto Rico officials said

Gov. Wanda Vazquez Garced declared a state of emergency and said Puerto Rico officials are now trying to understand the extent of the damage and how they can regain power. She warned Puerto Rican officials and citizens to stay at home as further aftershocks are expected. nine0003

Yauco Mayor Angel Luis “Luigi” Torres said: “We were not prepared for something of this magnitude, we were not even prepared for the hurricane. Now imagine an earthquake.

Puerto Rico power company chief Jose Ortiz said they were only able to restore power to 100,000 of the 1.4 million people affected by the power outage, with the goal of restoring power to everyone by the weekend.

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FEMA is supposed to help Puerto Rico after the governor declares a state of emergency. The governor confirmed that she has not yet had direct contact with the White House or President Donald Trump.

The current focus will be on restoring power to all who do not have electricity on the island. Displaced people will try to receive and help them, but this latest earthquake in Puerto Rico is one of many natural disasters that have continued to devastate the island over the past decade. Now much attention will be paid to how the White House reacts to the news, and how quickly the Trump administration will provide assistance due to the lack of urgent need for Hurricane Maria, which hit Puerto Rico in September 2017. nine0003

The Financial Conduct Authority of Puerto Rico has confirmed that it has approved the use of emergency funds to repair damage caused by recent earthquakes. However, this will no doubt further exacerbate Puerto Rico’s faltering economy, leaving Gov.

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