El Abra

El Abra
	Petroglyph of El Abra
	Location within Colombia
Location	Zipaquirá, Tocancipá, Cundinamarca
Region	Bogotá savanna; Altiplano Cundiboyacense; Colombia
Coordinates	5°01′02.49″N 73°57′04.33″W / 5.0173583°N 73.9512028°W
Altitude	2,570 m (8,432 ft)
Type	Rock shelter, petroglyphs
Part of	Pre-Muisca sites
History
Material	Sandstone
Abandoned	Herrera Period
Periods	Prehistory-Herrera
Cultures	Preceramic hunter-gatherers
Site notes
Excavation dates	1967
Archaeologists	Correal, Hammen
Ownership	Hacienda El Abra, Cesar Orjuela
Public access	Partly
Designation	Climbing area

El Abra is the name given to an extensive archeological site, located in the valley of the same name. El Abra is situated in the east of the municipality Zipaquirá extending to the westernmost part of Tocancipá in the department of Cundinamarca, Colombia. The several hundred metres long series of rock shelters is in the north of the Bogotá savanna on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes at an altitude of 2,570 metres (8,430 ft). The rock shelter and cave system is one of the first evidences of human settlement in the Americas, dated at 12,400 ± 160 years BP. The site was used by the hunter-gatherers of the Late Pleistocene epoch.