Why Suesca.com

This site has two jobs. The first is the house: that the Rocas de Suesca, the park where half of Colombia learned to climb, have a place on the internet that tells their story well. The second is the news: to gather in one site the climbing that is published in Spanish, scattered among magazines, federations and social feeds in a dozen countries.

The house

Suesca.com has been the portal of the Rocas since 2001. In 2003 it was the portal of the Fundación Rocas de Suesca, and its backdrop of always, the hand-drawn profile of the wall, is the same one that accompanies the front page today. The Suesca section keeps the whole place: what the Rocas are and how they are climbed, how to get there, what else to do in the town, the history of the cliff and of the municipality, and the photo archive of the original site, rescued photograph by photograph.

The piece that takes the most work is the practical guide: access to the Rocas has changed, today a nature reserve and shifting fees rule, and almost nobody was telling it. Here it is told with the date on it, so that whoever travels knows what to expect.

«Suesca is a place where we have met many and diverse friends, and where we have been happy.»

The news hub

Climbing in Spanish is published in many places and lost in all of them: a send in a Madrid magazine, a result on a federation's page, a first ascent on a provincial blog. Suesca.com brings it together on the front page with one simple rule: headlines and summaries written here, in Spanish, and the link always to the original source. We do not republish anyone else's work: we arrange it and point to it, so the reader reaches whoever told it first.

The order is a rule too: Colombia first, and then the Andes, the Southern Cone, Mexico, Spain and the rest of the world.

How we work

Every story carries its source and its date. The facts that change (access, fees, closures) are checked against the sources before publishing and carry the date they were checked. When the sources disagree, we say so: the guide gives the fee range, not a false precise figure. And when something is documented nowhere, we say that too: nobody has published who placed the Virgin of the ledge or when, and the history page leaves it open, in case someone who knows wants to tell it.

News, a correction, or a fact about Suesca? Write to us at hola@suesca.com.

— The Suesca newsroom