Describe a natural setting.

TATACOA DESERT...

This impressive desert area is located 38 km from Neiva, in the Department of Huila, and during the Tertiary Period of the Cenozoic Era it was a flowery and wooded garden.

Over time it dried up, leaving behind the overwhelming barren ocher and gray spaces that characterize it today. These colors led Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, conqueror of Colombia and founder of Bogotá, to call it the Valley of Sadness. The intense erosion in the desert forms huge gullies with capricious profiles that are more than 20 meters deep. Plant species that support living in the wasteland develop vertical roots 15 meters deep and horizontal roots 30 meters long. In the place there is an astronomical observatory that takes advantage of the cleanliness of the sky and the total absence of light pollution.