La Venta (Colombia)

This article is about the fossil site in Colombia. For the archeological site in Mexico, see La Venta.

La Venta is a settlement between the modern Tolima Department and Huila Department, Colombia. Nearby, one of the richest Neogene fossil assemblages in the whole of South America is known. It provides a glimpse of how life in the region was like before the main wave of the Great American Interchange.