TOURIST SITES PUTUMAYO

Mocoa is the capital of Putumayo Department located in the south of the country in the region of the Amazon. The surface area of ​​24,885 km2 and is bordered on the north by the departments of Nariño, Cauca and Caquetá river separating it from the department of Caquetá, in the east with the Department of Caquetá, on the south by the department of Amazonas and rivers Putumayo and San Miguel which separates it from the republics of Peru and Ecuador, and on the west by the department of Nariño. Bathe their land the Putumayo, Caquetá, Mocoa, Mecaya, Caucaya, Simple, Guamuéz, San Miguel, Sabilla, Orito, Mulato, Rumiyaco, La Quebrada Concepcion and numerous smaller streams. The plain is characterized by high temperatures above 27 º C. The most important economic activities are agriculture, livestock and mining. It highlights the corn, banana, cassava, pineapple, peach palm fruit, sugar cane and to a lesser extent rice, yams, vegetables and beans. Livestock has large dairy surpluses mainly in the Valley Sibundoy. They have discovered oil fields in the municipality of Orito, considered among the largest in the world. There lode gold deposits and alluvium in geological formations known as the Colombian Massif, especially in the Cordillera Central - East and currently being mined and Cascabel Curiyo rivers, tributaries of the Caquetá, and even in this; also extracted in the San Pedro River, a tributary of the Putumayo in the Valley of Sibundoy. Is a variety of building timber, medicinal plants, oilseeds, fibers, resins and rubber, balatae, incense.
The hamlets and small villages are located along rivers that are used as major thoroughfares. It has two major river ports, one in Puerto Asis, the other in Puerto Leguizamo. The Department has a road between Puerto Asís and mucus inside the country, another small stretch of road in the forest appears between Taquin and Puerto Leguizamo, who joins the Caquetá and Putumayo, there are 4 airports: in Puerto Asis, Orito, Puerto Leguizamo and Villagarzón.
The Department has with the Paya National Natural Park, with attractive scenery and great diversity of flora and fauna are also ethno-cultural diversity, which allows environmental conservation activities, management of natural scenery, attractive for ecotourism, scientific, sports, recreational and social. Own festivals annually held by indigenous groups. 

TOURIST SITES
Páramo de Bordoncillo	Límite Nariño-Putumayo
Aguas Termales	Colón
Reserva Natural la Rejoya	Colón
Cerro Churumbelo	Mocoa
Río Mandiyaco	Límite Putumayo - Cauca
Zona Arqueológica del río Vides	Villagarzón
Parque Natural Nacional la Paya	Puerto Leguízamo
Reserva Forestal del Titanga	San Francisco
Yunquillo - Reserva Indígena	Mocoa
El Salto de Hornoyaco	Mocoa
Sendero de Mocoa al Río Afan	Mocoa
(Para Ornitólogos)
Caverna de San Carlos	Mocoa

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Round 3: History

The department was surocciente territory of the indigenous Cofan the Kamentxá northwestern, central and southern towns like Siona tukano languages ​​and east by towns Witoto language. Kamentxá part of the territory was conquered by the Inca Huayna Capac in 1492, which after crossing the Cofan territory, established in the valley of Sibundoy Quechua population, now known as the Incas. After the defeat of the Incas in 1533, the region was invaded by the Spanish since 1542 and managed since 1547 successive pr Catholic missions. The current territory was linked to Popayan Putumayo during the colonial and early Republican decades was part of the huge "Asuay Department" that included territories of the sister republics of Ecuador and Peru. After a long process of land redistribution as follows: 1831: Province of Popayan. 1857: Federal State of Cauca. 1886: Department of Cauca. 1905: Municipality of Putumayo. 1909: Municipality of Caqueta. 1912: Special Commissioner of Putumayo. 1953: Department of Nariño. 1957: Special Commissioner of Putumayo. 1968: Special Quartermaster Putumayo. 1991: Department of Putumayo. An episode in the history of Putumayo was the "rubber boom" period between the late nineteenth to early twentieth century, when the Casa Arana enslaved and exterminated thousands of Native Amazonia, used as labor for the rubber industry. Today however there are still several indigenous communities who resisted the passage of the conquerors of the sixteenth century, the rubber groves and environmental changes caused by exploitation of oil and the recent settlement. 


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Round 2: Culture, ethnicity and Diversity.

Ethnography

The department of Putumayo has a population consisting of the three dominant ethnicbase in the country: mestizos, indigenous and African descent.
Most of the population migrated from the late nineteenth century, accentuating the middle and late twentieth century. The greatest moments of settlement have been linked to extractive booms as quinine, chub, precious woods and leather, but it definitelymakes up the bulk of the population, migration flows from the oil extraction and cultivation of coca.
Currently the department has significant emigration product state welfare programs,construction of mega projects such as road Multimodal Corridor Tumaco - Belem doPará, the Andean Hub, the Marginal de la Selva Road, mining and hydrocarbon .
Princial author departments are Nariño, Huila, Cauca, Caqueta, Cauca Valley and parts of the Atlantic Coast.
Mestizo & White (76.27%)
Amerindian or Indigenous (17.97%)
Black or Afro-Colombians (5.75%)
Roma (0.00%)

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1st round: Geography

Geography
In the territory there are two morphological units: The eastern flank of the Eastern Cordillera, which extends to the Amazon piedmont, and Amazon basin. The mountainous terrain occupies the western belt and features heights up to 3,800 meters above sea level. The Amazon basin, the largest, covers the central and eastern territory, is highlighted undulating banks of the River Caquetá and sectors are Mecaya flood. Bathe their land rivers: the Putumayo, Caquetá, Mecaya, Yurilla, Caucaya, Sencelles Guamuez, San Miguel, Sabilla, Orito, Mulato, Rumiyaco, Mocoa, Piñuña Rio Blanco, Caño Piñuña Black, Quebrada sharpening Concepcion Creek and numerous smaller streams.
 Weather
In the piedmont region, with increasing altitude, rainfall initially increased to reach its optimum rainfall between 2,300 and 3,500 mm, and then decline rapidly. The plain is characterized by high temperatures above 27 ° C, with an average rainfall 3,900 mm annually. Their lands are distributed in warm climatic zones, bioclimatic temperate wilderness. In the Park Department are Nacional Natural La Paya and Indian reservations Sharpener, Santa Rosa Guamuez, Santa Rosa Yarinal Sucumbios and San Marcelino.

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1st round: Geography

Geografía

En el territorio se distinguen dos unidades morfológicas: El flanco oriental
de la cordillera Oriental, que se extiende hasta el piedemonte amazónico; y la
llanura amazónica. El relieve montañoso ocupa la faja occidental y presenta
alturas hasta los 3.800 metros sobre el nivel del mar. La llanura amazónica,
la más extensa, abarca el centro y oriente del territorio, es de relieve
ondulado; a orillas del río Caquetá y Mecaya se encuentran sectores
inundables. Bañan sus tierras los ríos: Putumayo, río Caquetá,Mecaya, Yurilla,
Caucaya, Sencella, Guamuez, San Miguel, Sabilla, Orito, Mulato,
Rumiyaco,Mocoa, Rio Piñuña Blanco, Caño Piñuña Negro, Quebrada El Afilador la
quebrada Concepción, y numerosas corrientes menores.

Clima

En la región del piedemonte, con el aumento de la altitud, las precipitaciones
inicialmente aumentan hasta llegar a su óptimo pluviométrico entre los 2.300 y
3.500 mm, para luego descender rápidamente. La llanura se caracteriza por las
altas temperaturas superiores a los 27 °C, con una precipitación promedio
anual de 3.900 mm. Sus tierras se distribuyen en los pisos térmicos cálido,
templado y bioclimático páramo. En el Departamento se encuentran el Parque
Nacional Natural La Paya y las reservas indígenas de Afilador, Santa Rosa del
Guamuez, Santa Rosa de Sucumbíos y Yarinal San Marcelino.

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