Iquira town's economy (in general):

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 nonexistent secondary sector by the complete absence of transformation of raw materials and a tertiary sector represented by lower commercial activity of the population centers and the provision of basic public services community. Primary Sector: All the local economic system revolves around agricultural production, with clear predominance of coffee monoculture in areas of medium and high slope above 1,400 meters located in the upper part of the county seat, walks of Valencia, San Luis and Rio Black with her paths. There is extensive livestock farming, as the predominant activity in the territories located below the village, on the river valleys Alley Iquira lower river. Also cacao, cassava, plantain, corn, annual crops such as beans, peas, vegetables, fruit, passion fruit, blackberry, lulo, tree tomato. Secondary Sector: In the absence of agro-processing facilities for local production, it can be said that the development of this emerging sector is too limited and the artisanal processing of dairy products and other traditional foods. Tertiary Sector: Corresponds to commercial service activities being carried out at the local level. The commercial activity is centered three urban population centers that operate as centers of development for the influence on adjacent communities; It is characterized by retail type and aimed at meeting the basic needs of the community both for family subsistence and the acquisition of smaller agricultural inputs. A higher level trade develops between Iquira, Black River, Valencia and neighboring urban centers, which function as the final destination of agricultural and livestock production; and as the source for the supply of local merchants. In terms of the most important services they are under house character aqueduct, telephone, electricity and sewage, both in rural and urban centers.

Freider Camilo Tovar Góngora 

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