One problem that has affected the Puerto Triunfo municipality, in Antioquia, for several years is the overpopulation of hippos due to the animals that Pablo Escobar took to his farm, Hacienda Nápoles, ...

DORADAL, Colombia (AP) — Maria Jaramilla awoke in the middle of the night to the sound of her panicked mule. When she looked out across her small yard, her confusion turned to shock: A hippopotamus ...

WHEN night falls in the small Colombian village of Doradal, the quiet is broken by the wet, heavy thuds of the town's 1,360kg ...

Colombia is planning to cull a population of wild hippos, the offspring of the drug lord’s pets, dividing a town where hippos are the main draw. Colombia is planning to cull a population of wild ...

A hippo at Hacienda Nápoles park in Colombia, once the private estate of drug kingpin Pablo Escobar. Photograph: Fernando Vergara/AP The Colombian drug lord’s exotic menagerie fell apart after his ...

Yamit Diaz is a Colombian fisherman with a peculiar side business. Every three or four days, he takes visitors on boat “safaris” along the Magdalena River, where they can observe some of the ...

DORADAL, Colombia—In a small town in central Colombia, the grunt of hippos has become part of the soundscape. Every afternoon in Doradal, locals and tourists gather at a lake on the edge of town. They ...

Police killed or locked up Escobar’s drug gang, but not the hippos in his private zoo Doradal, Colombia: More than 20 years after Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar died in a gunfight with police, a ...