Municipality Of Caucasia

MUNICIPALITY OF CAUCASIA

Caucasia is a town that is located in the north of the Antioquia, it is limited with municipalities as Nechí, El Bagre, Zaragoza, Cáceres, Montelíbano, la Apartada y Ayapel.

April twelve (12) of one thousand eight hundred eighty six (1886), Petrona Arrieta of Spanish descent and her sons Clemente and leopoldo Arrieta Viloria arrived to a high ground and plane which was full of Cañafistula trees on riverside Cauca and so they made great things to found to Caucasia, the awesome town called Caucasia.

With approximately one thousand (100000) people, it is actuality a convergence point of three well defined cultures as the Paisa, La Montañera and the mojanera. Caucasia has a half warm weather, it is has as twenty eight degrees of temperature and fifty meters of high on the sea level. Insides, Caucasia counts with good economic sectors as the fisheries, livestock and mining which were and are the basic sectors from history of Caucasia.

It is greater producer of cattle and it is considerate as the commercial center of the bajo Cauca.

On the Caucasia town are make traditional parties as: 

Corralejas

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Vallenato festivals

 Romantic and Vallenato song festivals 

Cultural weeks on the schools

 Livestock fair  Days of young  Days of mid environment  Days of the peace

The town counts with cultural, sports, ecologic, educative and recreatives activities With dance, vallenato and theatre groups, too civic days; music, symphonic and cheerleaders bands

And without forget the internationals athletes.

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Insides, Caucasia has the bridge longer of all Colombia and one of the great rivers of Colombia.

Caucasia is a happy and peace town, it has peoples all kinds, race, stratum, homelands; too, peoples that work very hard to have a good future to them and their sons and daughter. I wouldn`t change my homeland by anything, because on it I was born, on it I alive and on it I’ll live.

Come and enjoy of all things that Caucasia offer. Come and you won regret of to having come… TURISTICS PLACES OF CAUCASIA