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COFFEE PARK
The National Park of the Coffee is a coffee theme park placed in the municipality of montenegro in quindio, colobia. He has a teleférico, shows, garden of the world coffee, two roller coasters, positions of food based on coffee, architecture folclórica Colombian, and others, totalizing 40 attractions that are divided in: mechanical, aquatic and thematic. The National Park of the Coffee was founded in 1995 by the coffee growers' national federation of colombia and the Coffee growers' Departmental Committee of the Quindío; pertenece a la Fundación Parque de la Cultura Cafetera y es una entidad sin ánimo de lucro destinada a la preservación del patrimonio cultural e histórico del café en Colombia, a la promoción de actividades culturales, recreativas, ecológicas y al impulso del ecoturismo en la región.
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RECUCA
It re-winks, also known as " The Tour for the Coffee Culture " it is an interactive and deep experience with everything what surrounds the production of a cup of coffee, from the sowing of a plant up to the moment in which a cup is served. In a traditional coffee estate, the native ones of the region they will attend to it teaching him own labors of the coffee culture in order that you know all the details of our nice region quindiana.
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PANACA
The National Park of the Agricultural Culture (PANACA) is an agricultural theme park located in quimbaya, colombia, his principal philosophy is to propitiate the interacitividad of the man with the nature and the domestic zoology. It is the first agricultural theme park in the world, offers several shows, thematic stations and a collection of domestic zoology. It autonames as " A great estate ", with 8 stations and more than 4.500 domestic animals,The park claims that the visitors know the principal activities of the agricultural sector and traditions of the campoPANACA it was founded on December 7, 1999, this idea arose from a group of Colombian businessmen worried by the lack of sense of belonging towards the nature and the animals in the whole planet and to do that the park makes return the look to the field.
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MARIPOSARIO
The Botanical Garden of the Quindío is an important center of scientific investigation and of environmental education, and it was the first one legally the constituted of Colombia Due to the fact that the garden is to 1500 meters on the level of the sea and covered almost in its entirety by the shades produced by his sub-Andean forest, the average temperature in the place is of 20nd centigrades .Fue founded in 1978 by Alberto Gómez Mejía, the Organization OIKOS, the University of the Quindío and the Club of Gardening of Armenia, attending to the suggestion that there had done the Teacher Jesus M. Idrobo in 1975. He acquired his juridical legal status in 1979. Later the Autonomous Regional Corporation of the Quindío (CRQ) delivered him in commodate to the Garden eight hectares of natural forest located in the surrounding areas of Filandia and Circasia The Garden was opened the public on December 16, 2000 and since then he has exercised a real leadership in the regional Ecotourism.
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VALLEY OF COCORA
The Bore's valley is a natural landscape located in a mountainous valley of the Central mountain chain of them walk Colombians, specifically in the department of the Quindío, doing part of the national natural Park The Snow-capped mountain. It is the principal home of the national tree of Colombia, the palm of wax of the Quindío (Ceroxylon quindiuense), as well as of a great variety of flora and fauna, a lot of of her on the verge of extinction, protected under the status of national natural park. The valley, as well as Salento's nearby locality, they are located between the principal tourist destinations of Colombia. Bore was the name of a princess quimbaya, daughter of the chief Acaime, and whose meaning is a water star.El valle está ubicado a una distancia de 24 kilómetros al noreste de la capital departamental, Armenia, en jurisdicción del municipio de Salento.
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PARK OF THE ARRIEROS
The park of the muleteers is a place that offers tourist services of recreation, scattering and learning I half-close to the culture of the arriería across artistic, cultural scenes, exhibitions and areas of entertainment that shape a range of options in order that there enjoy the visitors of an agreeable experience in our facilities, It is a special way of seeing, knowing, enjoying the arriería montañera doing from his visit to the park the muleteers a new concept of adrenaline and diversiónEl dream of creating a theme park about the culture of the arriería us was about the head during many year.It is for this that the Park the Muleteers was inaugurated officially on May 26, 2012.
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CENTRAL BAMBU AND THE GUADUA
Experimental Center of the Guadua and the Bamboo: Located in the municipality of Cordova in the department of the Quindío, this center takes charge investigating the qualities of the bamboo and the guadua. In this place it will be able to estimate a museum, a laboratory, an experimental fish-pond and reproductive invitro and a greenhouse. The center is one of the most important of Colombia and Latin America, dedicated to the reproduction, spread, culture, promotion and investigation of the guadua, resource of great value for the country for his innumerable ecological and economic benefits.
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