sábado, 29 de septiembre de 2012

PANACHI

 HISTORY

PANACHI

(Parque Nacional del Chicamocha)






Chicamocha National Park (Spanish:Parque Nacional del Chicamocha) also known as Panachi is a Colombian national level natural parkalong the Chicamocha Canyon (Cañón del Chicamocha) located 50 km from the city of Bucaramanga, Santander. The site is a tourist attraction due to is spectacular landscape and the variety of outdoor activities that it offers such as paraglidingspelunkingbushwalking,campingfishingkayakingraftingmountain climbing, etc.
The park is located on the highway between Bucaramanga and San Gil, 54 Kilometers from Santander's largest and capital city Bucaramanga.
The park features an aerial tramway that crosses the Chicamocha Canyon, in addition, there are parking spaces, viewing decks, and plenty of trails. Cultural activities include the Museo Guane, Plaza de las Costumbres and the Salón de Exposiciones. Skating rink, karts circuit, ostrichts, goats, a monument named monument to Santanderean culture, a 360 degree viewing deck located at the highest point of the canyon
The cableway allows tourists to see the canyon in all its splendor. The park is a common destination because besides its natural features the park is geared towards a more family experience by including an area with constructions typical of the Santander department, a field for practicing paragliding and the practicing of Kayaking and rafting is also allowed.
The park is served by a 6.3 km length cable car system. It is one of the longest systems of its type in the world. The system goes across the canyon from the station "Mesa de los Santos" to Panachi. It has three stations: The first one is located inside the park, the middle one next to the river and the last one in the "Vereda el Tabacal". Opened in January 2009 it quickly became popular for all its attracions but the cable car became even more famous.

CABLEWAY

  The cable car has generated buzz in Colombia and the world for being the only one going through a canyon of 6.3 kilometers.
Unlike other cable car systems in the world, the Chicamocha National Park is characterized by its length, the magnificent view, a rare dual channel system, height and an exceptional line. The total distance is 6.3 km of which are 2km between stations and 4.3 Park-River between the river and the Mesa de los Santos, distance traveled in 22 minutes. The average speed of travel of the cable car is 6 meters per second.


GOATS PARK


Beginning the tour is the Parque de las Cabras, a beautiful site that keeps goats culture representing the region, there can contemplate all species and have fun feeding them. 

In the National Park Chicamocha goats have a diet, being a food supplement that give tourists for fun. Goats have hairy bodies in different shades, which in some breeds is prized for making garments.


GUANE MUSEUM

The Museum Guane Chicamocha National Park is a place that retains the ancestral legacy of Culture Guane, who were the first inhabitants of Chicamocha Canyon. You will definitely appreciate original pieces that narrate the traditions of the most important tribe of eastern Colombia.





Any material that rests at the Museum is made ​​known to visitors through simple and detailed information through educational posters, accompanied by quotations from sixteenth-century Spanish chroniclers, which are reflected in all matters concerning culture Guane.

This park has besides these wonders, many sports where visitors
 are encouraged and enjoy these extreme activities.


CHICAMOCHA CANYON

The Chicamocha Canyon, for its unique natural features, complemented by facilities Chicamocha National Park, as well as the cable car that allows you to appreciate their beauty from the air and the water was approaching Chicamocha River, which meanders in slips bottom of the Canyon, is destined to become one of the major tourist destinations worldwide.

Chicamocha River Canyon is the result of erosion on the river bed, with the formation of large cliffs on both sides. The canyon starts in near the town of Soatá in the department of Boyacá and meets most of its course in the department of Santander ending near the town of Lebrija.










SANGIL



      



LOCATION

San Gil is located 96 kilometers from Bucaramanga, Santander Department's capital and 327 kilometers from the capital of the Republic Bogotá. Regarding Ecuador Parallel and Meridian, the county seat is located at 6 ° 33 'north latitude and 73 ° 8' west longitude.

It is the capital of the province Guanentina and has an area of 145 square kilometers intercommunal boundaries are: On the north with the municipalities of Villanueva and Curití, on the east by Curití and hills, on the south by the San Jose Valley and Páramo, and by the West with Pinchote, Cabrera and Barichara.


HISTORICAL

In chambers of Carrizal, May 6, 1688, a group of ranchers added to the doctrine of the people of Guane Indians, granted its power in favor of Francisco Diaz Sarmiento, then replaced Currea of Betanurt Don Leonardo, to that began in the Royal Audiciencia proceedings leading to the founding of "a village attached to the city of Velez, located in the territory between the rivers Sogamoso and Owl (Fonce), whose name would be Santa Cruz. the second part of San Gil name, had been introduced to the original Santa Cruz to win the favor of the president with the tribute that was done to your holy name.

March 17 (San Gil's birthday), 1689 President of the Real Audiciencia, Don Gil de Cabrera and Davalos, issued an order of foundation of the town, but only until 11 May (day sangileñidad) following the Royal hearing proceeded to deliver the letter granting the license to found a village in the province of Guane with the title of Santa Cruz and San GIL from NEW BAEZA. - Peoples of Santander, TERPEL, researchers UIS Group

From Land of 1887, enacted by Gov. Peña Solano for the department of Santander, San Gil municipality acquired quality, and since then it has been considered head of the Province Guanentá. The last of his provincial governors, appointed in 1937 was Don José A. Solar. The patron saint of the city is THE NEW SANTA CRUZ DE LA BAEZA.



ACTIVITIES SPORTS


RAFTING
PARAPENTE
BUGGIES
POTHOLING
RAPPEL
BIKE RENTAL
HORSEBACK
WALKS
TORRENTISMO
BOAT FACTORY






COLOMBIA


Officially the Republic of Colombia is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments,The territory of what is now Colombia was originally inhabited by indigenous peoples including the MuiscaQuimbaya, and Tairona.



Prior to the arrival of the Spaniards, the territory now known as Santander was inhabited by Amerindian ethnic groups: MuiscasChitareros,LachesYariguíOpónCarare and Guanes.

SANTANDER


Santander is a department of Colombia. Santander inherited the name of one of the nine original states of the United States of Colombia. It is located in the central northern part of the country, east of the Magdalena River, bordered to the south and southeast by Boyacá, to the northeast by Norte de Santander Department, to the north by Cesar Department, and to the west by Bolivar and Antioquia Departments. Its capital is the city of Bucaramanga.



PANACHI

Chicamocha National Park (Spanish:Parque Nacional del Chicamocha) also known as Panachi is a Colombian national level natural parkalong the Chicamocha Canyon (Cañón del Chicamocha) located 50 km from the city of Bucaramanga, Santander. The site is a tourist attraction due to is spectacular landscape and the variety of outdoor activities that it offers such as paraglidingspelunkingbushwalking,campingfishingkayakingraftingmountain climbing, etc.


The park is located on the highway between Bucaramanga and San Gil, 54 Kilometers from Santander's largest and capital city Bucaramanga.













PANACHI - Bucaramanga, Santander





TAKEN FROM: 


San Gil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia