Excursion to Barichara

Exploring places, Barichara, an experience of sensations that transport you over time with its colonial architecture !! Beautiful and quiet. Mountain land surrounded by the Suárez, Chicamocha and Fonce rivers, was the center of a notable pre -Columbian culture. Although before it must have been inhabited by hunters and collectors, it begins to have a stable occupation there in the eighth centuries or IX d. C, when people are established related to chibchas, farmers and ceramists. Its development was rapid: archaeologists have found remains of agricultural terraces, irrigation channels and tombs with colorful fabrics. At the beginning of the 16th century the “Guanes”. Spaniards were arriving at these lands, many attracted by an alleged appearance of the Virgin in 1701. by the mid -18 In 1751 the parish of Barichara would be created and cure was appointed. Its population grew and prospered and the Spanish town was filled with comfortable buildings on a chess board trace, with Church of Calicanto, which ended around 1780, and two chapels. For 1778, 1000 indigenous people lived (many were mestizos) and some whites in Guane and the lands of their shelter, dedicated to sowing corn, vegetables and fruits, especially banana, and some 1400 Spaniards (which included some mestizos) in barichara, raising cattle and growing sugar cane. The center is considered the heritage of Colombia. Recommended: For its architecture, nature, and good energy, it is interesting to rent old houses to spend the night because they are comfortable, beautiful and transport you to the past