IQUIRA  WHOLE  EXPERIENCE  TRANQUILITY

The modern world increasingly exploring opportunities for leisure and recreation in the most varied forms. The hectic city life, auditory, visual and general environmental pollution, run totally contrary to the look sites: comfortable, quiet and with opportunities to experience new environments.

Definitely one of the possible destinations for relaxation offers Iquireña the town located in the foothills of the central mountain range to the west of the department of Huila, distant 75 miles from the capital Neiva, via fully paved

Iquira offers in your city Sexy considered by the Paez for the foundation of its population: the height. This feature to visualize the landscape. No wonder her name means in language Páez: "Montes Altos or Watchtower." Similarly combines modern construction with typical ancestral houses cut precisely give the character of quiet and peaceful village. Likewise, its position is enviable to the horizon appreciate the majesty of the dam from Bethany, the Black, the Hill "Matambo" hill and the grandeur of the central mountains, upright on the Magdalena River Valley.

Its streets are beautiful gardens that brighten the cityscape and invite for a walk with the utmost tranquility, leaving the feeling of living in an eternal spring. According to the position where you are, in every street you can spot scenic countryside scenes that show harmony and quality of life. On already scarce eastern sector runs the 200 meters Ibirco broken.

JULIETA CAROLINA GÒNGORA CERQUERA

Ecology

ENVIRONMENTAL

The emergence of illicit crops since 1995, has brought consequences of different kinds and especially in the environmental aspect. It is necessary to create actions to prevent the spread of these crops through in alternative programs. The burning felling natural forests, pollution of streams, waste and sanitary sewage and garbage units, timber exploitation in an uncontrolled manner, are causing water shortages in important buffer zones and natural mountain sponges This situation needs to be controlled through education and awareness process of the population with respect to natural resources.

In Iquira have declared reserve areas for the conservation and protection of natural resources, two ecosystems strategic regional importance for its high production water and biological diversity of flora and fauna.

Natural National Park Buffer Zone Nevado del Huila, is located on the outskirts of the National

Park Nevado del Huila and special function within the National Park System is to attenuate the disturbances that may cause human action. It is located north of the municipal territory border with the town of Teruel and the department of Cauca, in the jurisdiction of the paths Narvaez, Zaragoza, Nazareth, The Rosary and Lejanías, has an approximate area of ​​11,478 hectares.

Municipal Forest Reserve High Banderas, occupies the central part of the territory taken from the edge of Banderas Tarpeya Forest Reserve south to the buffer zone of the National Park north Nevado del Huila, another portion of the territory corresponding to the recharge areas streams Duck, The Partridge and El Carmen. It is of great strategic value for being a star birthing tax sources hydrographic basin of the Magdalena River through Iquira River, Black River, Narvaez and Alley, its length is 4,511 hectares., Comprising lands of the villages Villa Maria , Ibirco, El Pato, El Carmen, Quebradón, Nazareth and Zaragoza.

Mabel Alejandra Velasco Yustres

Maria Alejandra Hurtado Bohada

Luisa Fernanda Rivas Ramirez

The tourist places of Iquira are for example many:

- The I saw black 

- The mestiza 

- tarpella 

- The caves of the chaparro 

- piamonte  

- The hill of the cross 

- On the way to the Indian 

- The black lagoon  

In short they are many but we don't take care of them, something very beautiful it is the church a place to meet with God.   

The hill of the cross is there a very beautiful place this saint of SAN FRANCISCO the one that takes care of us.

I am Michell Tatiana pole yustres and I live in Iquira Huila a very beautiful municipality  

With cattle raising and beautiful and solidary people, I like Iquira and I will die here.

I am Brayan gregorio alive tovar in iquira because it is a very beautiful place it is a calm very healthy town without violence where people are kind and kind. 

the climate is warm and pleasant and act to live iquira also has great variety of economic resources and sources of crystalline very natural and pure waters in iquira the water it is not contaminated he/she has cattle raising agriculture trade.  

I invite all our partners or friends that look at this blog so that they visit iquira and to a but when we are to some days of the sacred week that it is a very beautiful week to share with God and with our family in peace and a lot of tranquility and also to that knows this beautiful very calm town and with their solidary people their tourist places that are very beautiful in short I invite them so that they live the experience

that it is to live in a municipality that has many things to offer to their visitors and those that inhabit it and also a message for all the iquira inhabitants so that they take care in these waves of heat that don't burn they don't cut and don't allow to exploit the economic resources since they can cause us a lot of damage and we destroy all the beautiful one that we have

Michell Tatiana Polo  Yustres  y Brayan Gregorio Tovar A.

Tourist Aspect

The municipality of iquira account with beautiful natural sites of nature that let you offer them as true endless tourist attractions, including:

Piamonte, Natural Bridge, Camino Real, Cerro Negro, River Callejon, The caves of Chaparro, The Loma de la cruz, Tarpeya.

CERRO NEGRO

It is located to the south-west of iquira and to the west of the village of el chaparro: is located this one hour hour and thirty minutes from the town center of the town and its height is 170 meters and about 10 kilometers long, this hill is rich in strands of pure, crystal clear water, where the water is taken to supply the sidewalk the chaparro.
According to studies made to the hill have shown that contains a mineral called uranium, but cannot be exploited because she would have to be evacuated by a large perimeter, due to its radioactivity.

RIO CALLEJÓN

La Vereda El chaparro is located in the south-west of iquira, by this spend three rivers called Macuri, Site, and Pacarni, they join and form a large source call hydrographic alley.










Written By:
-Mariana Zuñiga Hurtado 
-Paula Valentina Camacho Perdomo 
-Andrea Liced Andrade 

ECONOMIC STRUCTURE

The local economic system has a basic structure common to most municipalities in the department of Huila, based on the existence of a primary sector, where agricultural activities take precedence over the other, a secondary sector with the transformation of raw materials and a sector tertiary represented by the commercial activity and the provision of basic public services in the community.

entire economic system revolves around agricultural production, predominantly monoculture coffee located in the upper part of the municipal headboard. There is an extensive cattle raising, as the predominant activity in the territories located below the village. commercial activity is centered the three towns which operate as centers of development for the influence on adjacent communities.

SUBMITTED BY:

Lina Mercedes Vargas Zuñiga
Maira Vanessa Covaleda Cabrera

IQUIRA PARTIES IN HUILA

Iquira the parties are very happy and enjoys the people, because people are very helpful and cheerful. participation where there are many people and groups that take advantage of free time, these parties are very good and they are very well organized. made by: JOHAN CAMILO QUINTERO CABRERA

this is the reign held in San Pedro, in this reign involved several colonies of different parts of Colombia, people enjoy, actively participates in these activities. 
made by: CARLOS MARIO AROCA CASAS

this is one of the many activities that take place in our beautiful town, this is one of many methods used to entertain young at the time.

made by: JUAN SEBASTIAN YUSTRES HOYOS

HISTORY IQUIREÑA

FIRST FIRST PERIOD information added by:
Leidy Marcela Buyucue Hoyos 
Maira Mercedes  Cedeño Obregon                                             10-01

LAND OF OLD MEMORIES I

QUIRA

WHAT MY GRANDPA BILL ME IN THOSE TIMES IQUIRA

Iquira land where it was a pleasant climate for our grandparents as they tell us the beauty that was before this dear people but previously very little energy and no avian cars. 

people had walked barefoot in case a pair of shoes just to go to church and before everything lived more hunting forest animals and did not exist at the time the radio televion progressed little by little and left this town as the first sutatensa radio and radio at that time was a poconon buy silver as the people were very poor and humble that he shared what had radio and people went to the house where they had all escuhar radio music and most of all the news.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IauxlcqbPlo

...................................................................................................................................................................SECOND PERIOD AGGREGATE INFORMATION SECOND BY:
MAIRA MERCEDES  CEDEÑO  OBREGÒN
LEIDY  MARCELA BUYUCUE  HOYOS

TOURISM  IQUIREÑO
The foundation of data Iquira 1694 by order of Francisco Martinez de Ospina who gives the name of San Francisco de Iquira a town built in what is now known alley, exactly are the territories of farms El Carmen, La Mestiza and San Mateo. 


Its first inhabitants were, the Paez Indians on suspicion of a possible attack by the Indians decided to move Pijaos population that occupies the site today for being high ground, strategically placed to see the enemy. That is why it is given the name "High Mountains" as meaning that primitive voices gave the word Iquira.

In order to spread the Catholic faith among Aboriginal parents in 1656 founded a Franciscan center doctrine and imposing St. Francis of Assisi as his employer. In l672 captains Perdomo Francisco Betancourt, Francisco Trujillo and Castro, Alfonso Montealegre and others, tried to raise the village to the category of town with the name of Alley Iquira. This attempt is unsuccessful why the village is abandoned as the Spaniards did in all people who did not accept their whims. 


Iquira In 1887 he was promoted to the category of town and by 1907 the construction of the temple began with the participation of all residents led by Lucas Ortiza priest; initiative was postponed by the war of 1000 days.


As a result of that war and the ravages left for this was considered the ability to go to the category Iquira township , passing to belong again Yaguará situation that never consolidated . In 1915 by the Honorable ordinance number 034 Departmental Assembly defined the limits of the municipality.

Power Plants in 1955 gave the service Iquira river hydroelectric plant as a first generation system installed in the apartment with a capacity of about 4.500KW . In 1969, Mary Help College is founded and starts working with 13 students in 1971 and is at the service of the community branch of the Caja Agraria charge of financial services for farmers.


Iquira Township is located in the western part of the department of Huila in the foothills of the volcano Nevado del Huila .
Dominates the mountainous topography feature, which alternates with valleys , plateaus , hills and small canyons .

The climate is the set of conditions in the atmosphere that characterizes the state of the weather or situation and its evolution in a given place

The municipality has various climatic zones :

Warm Weather: comprises 55 km2 and temperatures between 20 and 25oC .


Medium Weather : Comprises 220 km2 with temperatures between 18 and 20oC .
Cold Weather : Comprises 254 km2 with temperatures between 10 and 12oC .
Climate Páramo : comprises 3 km2 at temperatures below 5oC .

The average annual rainfall is 1,600 mm. , On average Volcanic risk is low.
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MAIRA-LEIDY

LET US KNOW SOMETHING OF IQUIRA

Iquira is a Colombian municipality located in the department of the huila.fue been founded by francisco martinez of ospina en1694y it is the city light of the huila with the first plant hidrolectica hubicada where at the moment it is today the inspection of Valencia de la Paz.

Iquira is very beautiful with many tourist places to visit has a warm climate, the park he/she has a big samán and a beautiful garden with flowers, people are kind and affectionate.