Armenia In English
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Publicado: 6 de febrero de 2013
ARMENIA A BEAUTIFUL CITY OF COLOMBIA
Armenia is the capital of Quindío, a department in ColombiaArmenia is a mid-size city located between Bogotá, Medellín and Cali, the 3 largest Colombiancities. The city's area code for phone calls is 67. Its average temperature is between 18 °C- 22 °C. It's one of the three that forms the Colombian Coffee-Growers Axis.
History: Despite Armenia'squickly expanding economy at the time, the means of transportation were still very limited. The main form of transporting people and merchandise was by mule, due to the mountainous terrain surroundingthe city. It was not until the construction of the first asphalt road in 1927 to Zarzal in the Cauca river valley that transportation was improved.
Nowadays, the city combines its contemporarydevelopment with the all traditional ways of its forefathers' heritage, like the historic Liberator Pathway, the path used by Colombia's 19th century Liberator Simon Bolívar to move his army between thewest of the country and Santa Fe de Bogotá during his successful independence campaign from Spain, currently one of the top two tourist destinations in Colombia
Tourism
The renewed touristindustry has activated the popularity of the city and its surrounding areas. The region's northern area is the gateway to Los Nevados national park, where the highest peaks in central Colombia rise toperpetual snows at more than 4,500 meters. At the Quindio side of the foothills of this national park, lays the magnificent Cocora valley, where the National Tree of Colombia, the wax palm grows, andwhose municipality of Salento is a top touristic destination famous for its culinary delicacy: fried river trout, for its guadua crafts and furniture (the strong native bamboo cane), its art galleriesand its fame for being the bohemian centre of regional artists. Tourists and hikers walk from here to reach the spectacular views of the park
Folklore
Each fall, La Asociacion Quindiana de...
Armenia is the capital of Quindío, a department in ColombiaArmenia is a mid-size city located between Bogotá, Medellín and Cali, the 3 largest Colombiancities. The city's area code for phone calls is 67. Its average temperature is between 18 °C- 22 °C. It's one of the three that forms the Colombian Coffee-Growers Axis.
History: Despite Armenia'squickly expanding economy at the time, the means of transportation were still very limited. The main form of transporting people and merchandise was by mule, due to the mountainous terrain surroundingthe city. It was not until the construction of the first asphalt road in 1927 to Zarzal in the Cauca river valley that transportation was improved.
Nowadays, the city combines its contemporarydevelopment with the all traditional ways of its forefathers' heritage, like the historic Liberator Pathway, the path used by Colombia's 19th century Liberator Simon Bolívar to move his army between thewest of the country and Santa Fe de Bogotá during his successful independence campaign from Spain, currently one of the top two tourist destinations in Colombia
Tourism
The renewed touristindustry has activated the popularity of the city and its surrounding areas. The region's northern area is the gateway to Los Nevados national park, where the highest peaks in central Colombia rise toperpetual snows at more than 4,500 meters. At the Quindio side of the foothills of this national park, lays the magnificent Cocora valley, where the National Tree of Colombia, the wax palm grows, andwhose municipality of Salento is a top touristic destination famous for its culinary delicacy: fried river trout, for its guadua crafts and furniture (the strong native bamboo cane), its art galleriesand its fame for being the bohemian centre of regional artists. Tourists and hikers walk from here to reach the spectacular views of the park
Folklore
Each fall, La Asociacion Quindiana de...
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