Ethnic and cultural diversity

Ethnic and cultural diversity

Every November 11, 1735, held in the municipality of San Martin de los Llanos -66 km south of Villavicencio, the crews of San Martin, some festivities in the 48 riders taking part in four groups of 12 barges . In the event, described as an "equestrian ballet", choreographed relives the battles between Moors and Christians and between Indians and blacks.

VISIT THE NATIONAL NATURAL PARK Sierra de la Macarena

Between July and November is the ideal time to visit the National Park Sierra de La Macarena, which can be reached by plane from Villavicencio and Bogota time. The park has 630,000 houses one of the most impressive sights in the world: the Caño Cristales, whose waters take on the colors of the rainbow thanks to aquatic plants called macarenias.

Learning about the fauna and flora of the Orinoco is the main focus of Bioparque The Ocarros, named after a giant armadillo that digs burrows in sleeping and can exceed 40 kg. Here visitors appreciate anacondas, monkeys, otters, capybaras, deer, Orinoco crocodiles, alligators, turtles and bears, among other animals.

For the navel of Colombia it is necessary to travel by land 83 km south of Villavicencio and reach Puerto López where Menegua at the top of a landscape of vast plains is observed and the monument marking the geographic center of the country stands. This is the obelisk built in 1993 that was prepared by the sculptor Miguel Roa Iregui.

Nature

AGROTURISMO IN COLOMBIA

DIVERSITY OF COFFEE

Colombia's coffee and the traveler can live experiences around this flagship product in places like Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Tolima, Santander, Nariño, Antioquia, Boyacá and Huila

This is an agricultural country where you can meet with rural farming community processes, willing to share their customs, their relationship with the land and their simple way of life

NIGHT OF FIRE

The joy of Christmas invades Salamina the beginning of December each year when we celebrate the Night of Fire, a festival that was born in 2001 in honor of the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception, patroness of the town. During this event the streets remain adorned with colorful lanterns lighting and a contest is between the inhabitants

INDIAN CULTURAL FESTIVAL AND THE REIGN OF Cumare

In November while attending the Indigenous Cultural Festival and Pageant Cumare in Cumaribo (760 kilometers south of Puerto Carreño), you can see the mix between the plains culture and the various art exhibitions of the ethnic groups that make up this region Vichada. Aboriginal dances, competitions unpublished poem, dance and counterpoint, among other things included.

Culture

THE CUMBIA

This fundamental in the music of the Atlantic coast, rhythm is the most representative of Colombia in the world. It is played with bagpipes, drums, maracas and guacharaca (scraping instrument).

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