National Coffee Park

National Coffee Park
National Coffee Park Location in Colombia
Coordinates:
Country	Colombia
Department	Quindío Department
Time zone	Colombia Standard Time (UTC-5)
Website	http://www.parquenacionaldelcafe.com//

The National Coffee Park (Parque Nacional del Café) is a theme park located in the department of Quindío, Colombia, 4 km south-west of the town of Montenegro and 11 km west of the departmental capital city Armenia. The park can be reached from a cable car, offers attractions orchid animatronics colorful, global coffee garden, a roller coaster, food stalls based on coffee, Colombian folk architecture, and other attractions, totaling 22 attractions at the end of 2009. The park was founded in 1995 by the National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia (La Federación Nacional de Cafeteros de Colombia) and the Departmental Committee of Coffee Growers of Quindío (El Comité Departamental de Cafeteros del Quindío). It consists of two main areas: by the main entrance are the buildings housing the museum and exhibitions detailing the history, culture and process of growing and producing coffee; and in the valley beyond is an amusement park with rides and shows. The two areas are linked by a cable car (gondola lift): it is also possible to walk between the two areas via an ecological trail that passes through a plantation of many varieties of coffee bushes. In 2009 the park received its 5 millionth visitor.

Nacional Coffee Park

Features

Local culture

• Interactive Museum of Coffee
• The Coffee Show — the history and culture of the region told through music and dance
• Traditional country house
• Plaza of typical Quindian town with traditional architecture
• Cemetery of indigenous tribes
• 18 meter high look-out tower, constructed from guadua

Ecological

• Coffee garden (ecological trail)
• Bamboo forest
• Horse rides

Mechanical

• "La Broca" roller coaster (formally the Zambezi Zinger relocated from the Worlds of Fun amusement park in Kansas City, Missouri)
• free-fall ride
• log flume
• Ferris wheel
• Bumper boats
• Bumper cars (dodgems)
• Go-karts
• Gondola lift
• Chairlift
• Traditional train (with live folkloric music) and station
• Krater — an Iron Shark-designed Euro-Fighter roller coaster by Gerstlauer.

See also

• Amusement park
• Coffee production in Colombia
• Colombian coffee growing axis
• Ecotourism
• Juan Valdez
• List of amusement parks in the Americas
• Quindío Department

External links

• Official site of the Parque Nacional del Café (in Spanish and English)