Castle
Castle of San Luis de Bocachica
🇨🇴 Colombia
The Castle of San Luis de Bocachica, also called Fort St. Louis, was a military fortress that defended Cartagena, Colombia. The Spanish built it in the 17th century. After it suffered war damage in the 18th century, they erected a new coastal fortification, the Castle of San Fernando on the same site.
The site on the Island of Tierra Bomba controlled deep-water access to Cartagena's harbour by the channel of Bocachica (or "small entrance" as opposed to Bocagrande, the "big entrance").
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Castle of San Luis de Bocachica ranks #4,854 of 5,479 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #3 of the 4 mapped in Colombia. See how Colombia compares in the castle statistics.
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