Explore the Nuevo Tolima Panel in 3D

Explore this interactive 3D model of the Nuevo Tolima panel. Click, drag, and zoom in and out to discover the paintings, or scroll down to read more about some highlights.

Images of a wide range of wildlife on the Nuevo Tolima panel showcase the biodiversity of the Amazon. Here, large paintings of a capybara (top right) and a feline with exaggerated paws (lower left) dominate the centre of the panel.

This one-of-a-kind painting of a camelid may represent the extinct Paleolama which inhabited the region in the Ice Age.

This painting is known as the "salt lick flower”. At first glance a stylised eight-petalled flower, closer inspection shows eight caimans arranged symmetrically around a salt lick. Animals which usually fight come together in peace at natural salt licks.

Nuevo Tolima is dominated by geometric shapes known as racimos (clusters), formed by a horizontal stick from which woven textiles appear to hang.

These designs could perhaps be patterns for weaving utensils out of cords and wickerwork. Some of the designs shown here can be found in the basketry and weavings made by Orinoco and Amazonian indigenous people today.

Lower on the panel, two large anaconda snakes appear in silhouette, their bodies branching in two like two converging rivers.