Back Hipopótamos en Colombia Spanish Hippopotames de Pablo Escobar French Գետաձիեր Կոլումբիայում Armenian Kuda nil Pablo Escobar ID コロンビアにおけるカバ Japanese Бегемоты в Колумбии Russian 哥倫比亞的河馬 Chinese
Hippopotamuses are an introduced species in Colombia. Four hippopotamuses were kept by Pablo Escobar in the late 1970s, and upon his death in 1993 they were allowed to wander his unattended estate. By 2019 their population had grown to approximately one hundred individuals, causing concerns for harming the native flora and fauna in the area; as well as posing significant threat to the human population in the area. They are also referred to as "cocaine hippos".