This downtown Bogotá handicrafts market, hard by the Candelaria district, the Museo del Oro, and the presidential residence, presents the full Colombian handicrafts portfolio: musical instruments, bracelets, earrings, wicker baskets with colored trim, vueltiao and aguadeño hats (vueltiao are the black and white wide-brimmed ones; aguadeño are straw hats, usually unadorned), Wayuu hammocks, Arhuaca backpacks, and replica pre-Columbian pottery. Prices vary by product quality. Some small-town artisans sell as part of a united cooperative.
The Pasaje Artesanal Rivas
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The Pasaje Artesanal Rivas
This downtown Bogotá handicrafts market, hard by the Candelaria district, the Museo del Oro, and the presidential residence, presents the full Colombian handicrafts portfolio: musical instruments, bracelets, earrings, wicker baskets with colored trim, vueltiao and aguadeño hats (vueltiao are the black and white wide-brimmed ones; aguadeño are straw hats, usually unadorned), Wayuu hammocks, Arhuaca backpacks, and replica pre-Columbian pottery. Prices vary by product quality. Some small-town artisans sell as part of a united cooperative.
