Pablo Escobar Zoo

Pablo originally bought four hippos from san diego zoo in 1981.

Pablo escobar zoo. Hacienda nápoles spanish for naples estate was the luxurious estate built and owned by colombian drug lord pablo escobar in puerto triunfo antioquia department colombia approximately 150 km 93 mi east of medellín and 249 km 155 mi northwest of bogotá the estate covers about 20 km 2 7 7 sq mi of land. In the 1980s leader of the medellin drug cartel pablo escobar smuggled 4 hippos into. Shurin lab uc san diego. Gina serna who goes on a journey to find the hippos from pablo escobar s illegal zoo.

Escobar s hacienda is now a tourist attraction but watch out for the hippos. 2006 an elementary school teacher. A hippo at the hacienda napoles theme park once the private zoo of drug kingpin pablo escobar at his hacienda nápoles ranch in puerto triunfo antioquia colombia in 2016. There are now 40 living on site all descendants of that original bull hippo who still lives on happily.

Pablo escobar s hippos were discussed on the fifth floor on the bbc world service. Serna was tasked to capture. Following escobar s death in 1993 many of the original buildings on the. In the early 1980s after escobar had become rich but before he had started the campaign of assassinations and bombings that was to almost tear colombia apart he built himself a zoo.

The documentary features a columbian veterinarian dr. Raised in the nearby city of medellín escobar is thought to have begun his criminal. Pablo emilio escobar gaviria was born on 1 december 1949 in rionegro in the antioquia department of colombia he was the third of seven children of the farmer abel de jesús dari escobar echeverri 1910 2001 with his wife hilda de los dolores gaviria berrío d. A male and three females.

Listen to the programme again on iplayer or get the fifth floor podcast. When the drug lord pablo escobar was shot dead in 1993 he left behind a zoo stocked with wild animals alongside his multibillion dollar cocaine empire.