The fact was confirmed by Diego Escobar Guinea, mayor of Girardot, commenting that senior executives of the renowned American firm are five months exploring Girardot and Cali, to define which of the two populations is the best choice for the development of the megaproject.
"For now the only thing confirmed is that Disney World will not be in Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela but in Colombia. They are interested in spread to all continents and South America found as a strategic point this country, which are only reviewing two options. "
Although no details of what the theme park to be constructed, said that requires a land of 500 hectares, and this is one of the things that is being reviewed in the capital of the valley and the Cundinamarca municipality.
This latter scenario be chosen, tourist attraction would be built on private land, installed in its rural areas by connecting with Tocayman and Ricaurte.
That is, that Disney would add to the millions buildings in recent years has come ahead in the exclusive area of ??Girardot, where their luxurious properties General Naranjo, the former prosecutor Alfonso Gomez Mendez and Vice President Germán Vargas Lleras.
Advantages of Girardot
Mayor Escobar given as a reality that will be the selected city Girardot, taking into account several striking factors for investors, among them that have been built 20 000 tourist homes, whose costs range between 200 and four billion pesos.
In addition to its proximity to Bogotá, Neiva, Ibague and Tolima tourist triangle (Melgar, Flanders and Carmen de Apicalá); a history of moving from being a city of 160 thousand to a million on a holiday weekend and all the infrastructure projects that come forward and have projected such as dual carriageways Ibagué-Girardot, and Bogota-Melgar-Girardot; the third lane on the road Anapoima-Mosquera, and the Girardot-Honda-Puerto Salgar road project.
Wait. What? Disney has a theme park in Colombia? New Colombia Resources even tickered Disney in Wednesday's press release, assuring that Disney shareholders would be left scratching their heads as they scrolled through their ticker news feeds.
Disney doesn't naturally have a theme park in Colombia, but you would have walked away thinking that it was a near certainty after reading the press release. New Colombia Resources details how it plans to build a water reservoir, 25 miles from where a 1,200-acre theme park is supposedly being built in Girardot, Colombia.
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