Guatapé River
The Guatape is a river in Antioquia Department, tributary of Samana North river. The scene of this river and the color of the water in the upper part are just perfect. This year as Jules Domine told us we have started a few km above the usual put in, a bit below from the hydroelectric plant. The water level wasn’t the high but adequate, is a call III and IV with a short class V close to end.
This time in the water was Jules
Domine, Todd Wells, Ben Marr, Mikael Hyla, Jean Rigole, Fanfa Cha and mi self.
Before I pass to show you the pics
from the river I would like to tell you about my experience in the towns of San
Rafael y Guatapé are a must go!!!
Enjoy the pics!
The view of San Rafael village.
Church of Guatapé at the main
square.
All houses in town are painted with
this color. Is one of the characteristic of Guatapé.
A man is pushing a small truck
along the lake for the all day.
Here is where we started and I have
to confess that we were all a bit hangover.
Somewhere in between we had a break
where a lot of local come in family and friends to swim and relax. And of
course everyone was very curious about the boats!
A minor inconvenience happened in this section that is actually the last rapid. The thing is that we were coming down quite fast and suddenly Ben and Todd were falling in a short section mined of siphon; Ben pass with some bony rolls, Todd ends with half of his kayak in a siphon that later was pull out with a rope. The rest of kayakers did a portage.
After all we got back in San Rafael…
a group photo and last hike to hotel.
Later we were heading back to
Medellin to get ready for the FD of Cauca River, coming soon.
