Touristic Huila
Transcript of Touristic Huila
Group members
• LIZARDO SCARPETTA• CLARA JULIANA
CHAVARRO•MARIA ELENA OSORIO
huila´s name
Huila´s name has an indigenous origin and means “orange” or in the paez languaje “luminous mountain” referring to huila´s majestic snowcap mountain, our highest andean montaingtop at 5.750 mts above sea level , from which the name is taken.
The tatacoa “desert”
• The Tatacoa Desert is a pleasant site of real interest for every person who enjoys life in places that posses a strong natural component. for that reason, going over stony and dusty roads and paths allows for the breathing of pure air from a clean atmosphere, also you can enjoy the visual wonders of a remote landscape, where nature work stays untouched in a great part over its extension.
Huila´s snow capped mountain
• The huila´s snow capped volcano national park , holds the two most important basinsin colombia. This “colombian macizo” is strategic point because of its environmental goods and services that in can offer.
“cueva de los guacharos” national park
“cueva de los guacharos” nacional park, the gurapa and suaza rivers source is found and there they become sources of water for animal and human consumption. Recreative facilities and water treatment plants are also services for municipalities of Palestine, Acevedo, Suaza, Guadalupe, Altamira and Garzon.
Forrest around “cueva de los guacharos” nacional park generate oxygen and help in the capture of co2 , aiding the climatic regulation in region. The park belongs to the touristic strategy of southern Huila along with the craft center in Pitalito, Archeological park of San Agustin, Isnos, ´Magdalena´s strait and strait and Bordones.
The magdalena´s river islands park and lagoon
• The magdalena´s River islands park is located on an island which is a zone that belongs to the same river located on the west side of Neiva, with approximately 68 hectares.The magdalena´s River island park is made up of an ecosystem with landscapes and vegetables and terrestrial and aquatic animal species, representative of the dry, tropical forest in the magdalena´s high river valley.
There you can do outdoor recreation activities, ecotourism, en vironmental education, navigation sports (Kayak competitions forexample) and recognize huila´s identity associated with the magdalena River.
Orchids, the national fower
• The orchid . is colombia´s national flowe more
Specifically, the catleya trianae variety.It is well known thet colombian orchids
are considered within the most beautiful worldwide.
It is considered thet colombia has at least 3.000 orchid types
THE BANBUCO TRADITION
• It is characterized by its walking pace in big circles and figure eights, particular movements of the skirt and hat, fundamentally because it´s made up of a kind of persecution in which the woman goes ahead, carried by the man, in other occasions, pulled by him, dragging her seductively with the pocho. Paraphenalia: A simple wardrobe consisting of an ankle length skkirt with 3 layers of printed cloth, blouse with cotilla with a high neck, hat and rope-soled sandals for her, and pants and white shirt, slanted poncho over the shoulder, machete in the belt, straw hat with a crease in the middle and rope-soled sandals for him.
NATAGA
• NATAGA is huila´s capital of mary´s devotion, site of “nuestra señora de las mercedes” bacilica, annually visited by over 200,000 parishioners. It is considered the third center of pilgrimage in colombia.
Opita’s recipes huilense food
• The most representative dish from the huila departament. It is especially cooked in every june as many dish of the saint juan and saint peter’s feltivals.
“BY THE YEAR 2009, HUILA WILL BE THE GREEN HEART OF COLOMBIA, PEACEFUL,
FRIENDELY, AND ENTERPRISING, LEADER OF A DYNAMIC REGION, WHERE
EVERYBODY´S DREAMS COME TRUE.”