LETICIA TOURIST

PLACES

IT IS LOCATED IN THE EXTREME

SOUTH OF THE COUNTRY ON THE
The
Amazon
BANKS OF THE AMAZON RIVER.

THE MAIN FEATURE OF THE AREA

IS UNDOUBTEDLY THE MAJESTIC
AMAZON RIVER, THOURGH
WHICH YOU CAN NAVIGATE TO
Enjoy and experience OBSERVE AMAZING SPECIES AND
irresistible TO REACH REMOTE TOWNS,
adventurous activities INDIGENOUS RESERVATIONS AND
on one of the most NATURE RESERVES
beautiful tropical
zones in the Amazon

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Gastronomy
Pirarucú pork rinds the most
representative food in the Amazon is
the fish, due to the ease of obtaining it,
its nutritional value, the purity of its
meat and its flavor. The most desired
fish are the gamitana and the pirarucu.
Parties and
events
Indigenous traditions are lived within the
communities, but they are also recreated
in some of the department's most
important festivities. In Puerto Nariño, the
celebration of Holy Week and the
anniversary festivities on April 1st are of
great importance. The Indigenous
Olympics are held there, in November, the
Day of the Farmer, in June, and the Festival
of Dance, Storytelling and Murga, in
December
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begin Amacayacu
Handicrafts
The Amacayacu National Natural Park is
Handicrafts Elaboration of backpack with one of the 56 protected areas of the
chambira The handicraft objects of the Colombian National Natural Parks system
natives, of great appreciation in the
international market, are offered mainly by near the Amazon River, in the so-called
the Huitoto and Ticuna ethnic groups, from "Amazon trapeze". The name "Macuca"
Amazon trapeze. Indigenous material culture is means "Rivers of the Hammocks" in the
rich in symbolic content. For its elaboration they
use fibers, wood, clay, bark and vegetable dyes, in aboriginal Quechua language.
addition they preserve the features of their
In this park you can find more than 34,500
ancient culture. These groups make objects of
daily and ceremonial use, and the collective
species of birds and mammals such as the
practice of craft production now represents a
source of economic income. head and white titi, the macaw, the toucan
How to get and the otter, animals that are only found
Due to the geographical conditions of the there are the striped lion and the four-
department, access from the main cities of finned fish.
Colombia is carried out with connection in
Bogota. Flights arrive at Alfredo International Attractive places
Airport Vasquez Cobo, from Leticia. From
Bogota There are daily flights to Leticia. Manaus -Ethnographic Museum
(Brazil) can be reached from neighboring of the Amazonian Man
-Santander Park
Tabatinga, either by air connection or by -viewpoint from the
waterway, with a speedboat, in a cathedral tower
trip that lasts at least 36 hours, the same that -Lakes of Yahuarcaca
from neighboring Santa Rosa (Peru), if the -.Tourist Boardwalk
destination is from or to Iquitos.