This is the Castillo de San Felipe de Barajas, in Cartagena, Colombia. I visited in May 2015.
This was the fort built to protect the harbor in Cartagena during the Spanish era. Which did the harbor need to be protected by such a big, impenetrable fort? This was the main port in the New World for shipping all that Incan gold back to Spain. Peru, being on the Pacific side, was somewhat impractical for purposes of providing a shipping port for such a valuable commodity.
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