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

Andres Morales