The 14 best tourist sites of Quindio are the places that you should not miss when visiting this incredible and magical land. 

Recuca is a place where the tourist is welcome with a coffee prepared in aguapanela and then transformed into an actor: In typical costume, basket and machete to the belt begins a long journey that transports you, first, for the history of the grain from Ethiopia, Arabia and Holland coming here to America. 

Recuca is located in the farm La Chapolera, sidewalk Calle Larga, corregimiento of Barcelona, ​​jurisdiction of Calarcá. Entering a thick coffee plantation full of green and panorama, await a series of stations that reveal how the coffee crop spread for our country, while harvesting its grains, to earn the "bogadera", cold aguapanela with lemon that Quenches thirst and gives you the necessary strength for the next stage. 

To finish, it is necessary to remove and dry the grain, toasting and grinding, to prepare and to delight with a pleasant coffee that leaves to you impregnated with all the aroma of our traditional coffee culture. For this and much more Recuca is one of the best tourist places of Quindio. 

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The National Agricultural Culture Park PANACA, is a large format Agricultural Theme Park full of recreation and interaction with the countryside, where you will find striking exhibitions, amazing theme stations and the compilation of the largest domestic zoology on earth. PANACA, located in Quimbaya, is an interactive bridge between the city and the countryside, where through interactivity, learning and fun with purpose it manages to make clear to its visitors that Without a field there is no city 

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The Cocora Valley is a natural area located on a rugged plain of the Central Cordillera of the Colombian Andes, more exactly in the department of Quindio, Colombia. This place belongs to the National Park Los Nevados. It is the main home of the Colombian national tree, the Quindio wax palm, and also of a great diversity of flora and fauna considerably endangered, protected under the state of natural national park. 

The valley, and the nearby municipality of Salento, are among the first tourist destinations in Colombia. 

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The Botanical Garden of Quindío (Mariposario), in Calarca, is a significant pole of scientific exploration and environmental training. This garden has one of the largest collections of butterflies in Colombia and the land. The garden was opened to the public on December 16, 2000 and since then has made an effective leadership in the region's Eco-tourism.

 Thanks to the support of the citizens and the assistance of many people and entities, the Garden sustains itself and has carried out significant works of advice in other areas of the country in the elements that are its specialty being thus a recognized Mariposario

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The National Coffee Park is a Colombian theme park located in the municipality of Montenegro, Quindio Colombia. 

This was founded in 1995 by the National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia and the Departmental Committee of Coffee Growers of Quindío. It has a cable car, an attraction of colorful animatronic orchids, a world coffee garden, a roller coaster, coffee-based food stalls, Colombian folk architecture, and other attractions, totaling 22 attractions

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In the village Santana, Quimbaya (Quindio), between coffee plantations, banana plantations and two crystalline gorges, a park was born that complemented the tourist offer of Quindío and the Eje Cafetero. 

It is Los Arrieros, an area of ​​23 blocks where it is recreated day by day of the emblematic campesinos that gave life to the people of this region. "To see" Yipaos "people have to wait until June, at parties in Calarcá; To see lanterns, they must wait until Christmas in Quimbaya. Now, in Los Arrieros, they will have permanent exhibitions of these activities, as well as everything that has to do with the life of the muleteers. "

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The Quimbaya Gold Museum, whose construction is a scheme of Rogelio Salmona, boasts an excellent and varied archaeological collection dating back 10,000 years to the art and pre-Hispanic works of the indigenous Quindío peoples.

 After the modification of the gold and ceramic rooms in 2003, the compilation was expanded and improved, based on hard museographic inquiries. In addition to the museum, this cultural area has a regional documentation center, a children's reading room, an open-air theater and a temporary exhibition space.

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Located in the municipality of Cordoba, 45 minutes from Armenia, the National Center for the Study of Bamboo and Guadua is a place where students, tourists, associations and families can experience the real meaning of the so-called "wonder plant" . Seven hectares of land adorned with various constructions like bridges and kiosks, constitute the place. 

Houses furnished with sofas, tables and ornaments made in "the evergreen" complement it. Such qualities make the center of study a place conducive to reflection and recreation.

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Part of the splendor that was experienced in Colombia thanks to the trains is revived when visiting the old railway station of Armenia, which has become the Cultural Center Metropolitan Station. In this building, which dates back to 1927 and was declared National Heritage in 1989, art exhibitions and other cultural events take place. 

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It is located at kilometer 9 via the eden in the quindio is a place for vacation, recreation, fishing, swimming, zip line, water bikes and more.This located at km 9 via eden in Quindio is a vacation site , Recreation, fishing, swimming, tirolina, water bicycles and more. 

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It is a recreational activity and of observation of the landscape that is practiced in small boats of guadua in the navigable stretches of the river La Vieja. The tour lasts 5 hours and must be made with warm weather clothes.

 It is recommended to wear sun protection, hat or cap and clothing to change. The route through the River comprises from Puerto Alejandria (Quimbaya) to Piedras de Moler (Carthage). In this tour we can observe the "Reserva del ocaso", a primary forest of 110 hectares, where numerous species of flora and fauna in danger of extinction are conserved, among which the howler monkey stands out.

 On a raft built at the point of guadua the tourist can sail. To start this discoverer and exciting journey you will board a jeep willys to Puerto Samaria, where you take the road to montenegro and then the road to Pueblo Tapao. Then proceed down to the river. 

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Just 100 meters from Los Fundadores Park, on Avenida Bolívar, the most significant one in Armenia, is El Parque de la Vida. 

An extraordinary gift that made the coffee association to the town of Armenia for its 100th anniversary. It has an area of ​​eight hectares, a leafy area, trees and large green areas, a lagoon with fish, ducks and geese, paved roads to transit and several falls of water in the form of a ladder. The Park of Life is, par excellence, and for some years already, the most striking and crowded lighting in Armenia. 

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Quimbaya Lighting is one of Quindío's most traditional celebrations, celebrated on Noche de las Velitas on December 7, the day before the day of the Immaculate Conception, or in the early hours of December 8. In the municipality of Quimbaya, in Quindío, the Day of the Velitas is celebrated obstructing the streets to traffic, and they are lit with candles, lighthouses and paper lanterns in the form of animals, saints, and figures of the manger, which fill everything The town of light which attracts national and international travelers during this time. 

Other events are parades and fireworks. This day marks the beginning of the Christmas holidays in the country. 

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