Welcome to St. Augustine Huila Colombia
Location of St. Augustine
It is located south of Huila on the majestic peaks of the Colombian Andes, specifically in the eastern range to 1730 meters above sea level in the foothills of the Colombian Massif weighted where the most significant wealth flowing water in Colombia.
Humid with frequent rainfall region with an approximate temperature of 18 °, at night the temperature drops making them cold, here comes in the lake that bears his name one of the largest rivers has Colombia's Magdalena, also 14 rivers including the majuas, rionegro, Quinchana, sheep farming, mulales, osoguaico, porridges.
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historical aspects
Thursday, 12 April 2012 15:50
Alejandro
The first news of these remains date back to 1758 when Fray Juan de Santa Gertrudis visited the site, but only up to 1913 were investigated scientifically by the German archaeologist K. T. Preuss. Since then they have been permanent research highlighting the work of José Pérez de Barradas in 1936, Gerardo Reichel Dolmatof in 1966 and Luis Duque Gómez from 1943 until today.
The researcher Luis Duque Gomez says that this place was sacred site, a center with a wide range of people from where they came afar to bury their dead and worship their gods.
Last Updated on Monday, 16 April 2012 10:17
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San Agustin: Magical destination
Thursday, 12 April 2012 15:46
Alejandro
On the foothills of the Colombian Massif south of the Cordillera Central and Eastern accent is a great civilization of a people unknown sculptor mainly, but his other activities deserve recognition as hunters, gatherers in the beginning, farmers, potters, wood carvers, goldsmiths, with a capacity of social organization, apparently predominantly the domain of shamans and chiefdoms as ultimate authority, without discrimination, where the family played an important role in this form of social organization, both men and women worked together children, youth, adults, shamans and chiefdoms, labored for the same company, so they came to came and culture as any great mystery, disappears, leaving only traces of these statues and other utensils of daily life, in which marks a major significance of the symbolic, the real and imaginary.
Last Updated on Monday, 16 April 2012 09:08
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Economy of the region
 We can say that the economy had an agricultural base. The excavations found waste corn and peanuts, along with metals and mallets for grinding. It seems that there was a barter trade with the neighboring towns and built roads that wind through the hills and down zig-zag down the steep slopes.
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Important people
Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:09
Alejandro
ARNULFO LEGUIZAMON GIRALDO, Winner of the ninth international version "Cup of Excellence Colombia 2011"
Arnulfo Leguizamón Giraldo, is a humble and simple farmer, with a full life devoted to agriculture, especially the cultivation of coffee, whose experience inherited from his parents and friends searching techniques and experts, and test point error, has achieved after many attempts to create the perfect formula (Selection of coffee, earth, compost, harvesting and drying pub etc.) to produce the best coffee in Colombia 2011, without being overbearing nationalist MEANS the best coffee in the world.
Last Updated on Monday, 16 April 2012 10:52
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Promotional video of the Departmental Secretary of Culture and Tourism
People and culture
 St. Augustine is known for being a tourist site welcoming to all kinds of people, both domestic and foreign, who delight in its landscape, its archeology, culture, infecting their magic, you back in time, as if the spent outside living.
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