TOWNSHIP GÜICAN
HISTORY
Güicán The territory was populated by aborigines in 1635 Tunebos who were ordered to do their huts. Hernan Perez de Quesada took away the gold and threw them off their land. But they do not want to live under the tyranny of whites congregate resolved and sworn decide to throw all women, children and adults into the abyss of today called `` Rock of the Dead'', which is actually a rock of glory by the heroism of the natives. Güicán Foundation is linked to the history of the image of the Virgen de la Morenita ``'', in 1756 came to this country the missionary Miguel Blasco, who sent out a ranch rammed earth and covered with straw, near I dig there between two large rocks where suddenly the chapel where he prayed before an image of Mary, was not admired by the Tunebo, commenting because they worshiped a lady celestial bigger and more beautiful, curiously news that the missionary . This is how this gets to the cave called `` The Cuchumba'', he found an image of Mary lighted with wax frailejones bay and the smoke and the crementina fired, the image is dark around.
The oldest Aboriginal man said a white beard and white robe image gift them and teach them to pray and venerate. Father Blasco convinced this community on whether to transfer the image to the chapel, which is now in the Cathedral Güicán. 1757, actual date of the Hispanic Foundation of Güicán. Güicán participated in the revolution of the Communards of 1781, sending an army of Indian archers. Don Pedro José Ortega Güicán represented in the enactment of the Constitution of Tunja in 1811. In 1814 the Department was incorporated Güicán Northeast and in 1843 was built at Canton Cocuy.
Güicán The territory was populated by aborigines in 1635 Tunebos who were ordered to do their huts. Hernan Perez de Quesada took away the gold and threw them off their land. But they do not want to live under the tyranny of whites congregate resolved and sworn decide to throw all women, children and adults into the abyss of today called `` Rock of the Dead'', which is actually a rock of glory by the heroism of the natives. Güicán Foundation is linked to the history of the image of the Virgen de la Morenita ``'', in 1756 came to this country the missionary Miguel Blasco, who sent out a ranch rammed earth and covered with straw, near I dig there between two large rocks where suddenly the chapel where he prayed before an image of Mary, was not admired by the Tunebo, commenting because they worshiped a lady celestial bigger and more beautiful, curiously news that the missionary . This is how this gets to the cave called `` The Cuchumba'', he found an image of Mary lighted with wax frailejones bay and the smoke and the crementina fired, the image is dark around.
The oldest Aboriginal man said a white beard and white robe image gift them and teach them to pray and venerate. Father Blasco convinced this community on whether to transfer the image to the chapel, which is now in the Cathedral Güicán. 1757, actual date of the Hispanic Foundation of Güicán. Güicán participated in the revolution of the Communards of 1781, sending an army of Indian archers. Don Pedro José Ortega Güicán represented in the enactment of the Constitution of Tunja in 1811. In 1814 the Department was incorporated Güicán Northeast and in 1843 was built at Canton Cocuy
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LOCATIONS
Güicán Township is located in the Department of Boyacá.
The Municipality of Güicán this distant 255 miles from the provincial capital, has an area of 93,404 hectares, and is located in the Eastern Cordillera of the Andes Equator to the North-East Department in the Province deBoyacá Gutierrez. This province consists of the municipalities of Chiscas (65,900 ha), Cocuy (19,000 Ha), El Espino (6,900 Ha), Macaws (5,900 ha) and Panqueba (3,800 ha), being Güicán, the largest.
The county seat is located at 6 ° 27'55 "north latitude and 72 ° 24'54" longitude west of Greenwich.
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HISTORICAL DISTRIBUTION OF THE POPULATION.
In recent years, the population of Güicán constant has as high birth rate and emigration processes become increasingly unsustainable cities, a process that is caused by unemployment, violence, low economic development based on smallholding and economic liberalization policies that have led to the bankruptcy of many farmers for whom it is impossible to compete against imported products.
MUNICIPALITY DATA
Length: 934.04 km2.
Population: undefined
Height: 2963 m above sea level.
Temperature: 12.2 ° C °.
Reference distance: 255 km of Tunja, Boyacá department capital
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MIRACULOUS MORENITA OF GÜICAN
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MIRACULOUS MORENITA OF GÜICAN
The virgin brunette virgin of Güicán is that the indigenous U'wa had for his vocation and his picture is in the Cathedral of the people, the whole picture is made of gold and so today being worth thousands of pesos bollines. But we must remember that this virgin is mixed with the original version of her with the Virgin of Carmen
Legend has it that the Chibcha, residents of the country's central highlands (altiplano Cundi-Boyacese), were prosperous and happy but gradually they forgot their gods.
Then Heaven sent Bochica, an elder with long white hair, beard, blue eyes and rosy cheeks.
The Indians did not think someone could be so "clear" and quickly became friends and docile disciples ... but not all ...
Bochica fundamental moral precepts taught and then to build huts, to plant and cultivate and care for the animals so they could use the land and not be idle.
After some punishment (including a flood) by the disobedience of some who did not welcome his teachings, Bochica disappeared "walking on the rainbow." The Indians then began to worship him as god of civilization.
When the conquistadors arrived, the Indians were receptive and supportive they remembered the ancient Bochica and those identified with white beards.
Evangelization occurred without many setbacks.
For more, and a little more recent, helped the Indians of the interior embrace the Christian Faith: an apparition of the Virgin a little before the arrival of the "white".
In a small village (later founded as Güicán) located in the Nevado del Cocuy in Boyacá, evangelizers catechized the Indians without difficulty. One day I spoke to the Virgin Mother of the Savior and one of the natives said, "we have a nicer", referring to Table of Madonna del Rosario were exposing them to illustrate the lessons.
Other attendees were upset with the indigenous "snitch" and did so silent about the curiosity of the priests.
Knowing if an illustrious and Spanish piedoso who knew the Indians, suggested to organize a feast inviting the Indian community to try to clarify this innocent but mysterious comments. And they did.
After drinking some "gourds of chicha" (native beverage based on maize and intoxicating properties) and after filling the belly of the good Indians, they were asked to show the place where they had the "most beautiful Virgin."
Painfully climbed the steep snowy slope llegaorn a natural cave where they had, in a sort of alcove, a picture representing unequivocally the Virgin Mary dressed as a princess Tuneba: a young beautiful coppery skin you, dressed in white woolen tunic emblazoned with pink flowers candid, put hands in prayer and a huge ring on the left indicating his royalty, a white beaded necklace from which hung a figure rombiode with a flower with four petals in the center, Long earrings and beads and flowers, in the arm, a rosary. His head tilted to the right gracefully, shows a beautiful face of charitable majesty: the Virgin not smiling ... on the contrary, seems guessed a deep compassion for the Indians.
The black hair, divided into two braids, blends in dark roan (sort of heavy wool coat), and his head is adorned with a crown of gold native.
The Indians told that ten or fifteen years before the arrival of the "white" his people suffered a terrible famine. Filled with sadness and I cried to heaven was sent a young princess who had comforted and rains brought back to earth.
For several days the saw and could talk to her admiring her beauty and profound wisdom. But it was time to say goodbye and they all gathered around him to say goodbye to the Good Morenita. She looked with deep tenderness, told them it was the Mother of God and that, in short, some white men would come to talk to him I recommended gentleness and docility toward the envoys of His Son and said goodbye leaving a picture with his image.
They took the image from a cave and then took refuge at the feet of the Mother of God imploring protection and relief, illuminating it day and night with countless candles.
It is very sad to know this beautiful story only by oral tradition. On a trip I did fifteen years ago I marveled at Güicán the large influx of visitors, residents and foreigners, who made the pilgrimage to ask for favors and give thanks to the Miracle of Güicán Morenita. The story was told to me the priest who distributed among those present a humble history booklet. But it failed to give me the little card with the image from the waist that I keep with love since.
Find information about them is very difficult and I ask my countrymen lest they know more or can correct probable mistakes I made when transcribing what I remember of the story, let me know.
ECONOMY
The economy in the region is based on activities directly related as land resources: agriculture and other related livestock and forestry, logically there strengths, weaknesses and threats to the stability and development of it.
The main activity of the population of the Municipality of Panqueba corresponds to the Agriculture and Livestock, a minimum share of mining (sand mining).
STRENGTHS:
AGRICULTURE: As for agricultural activities in the municipality and the region in general emphasizes the cultivation of potatoes, corn, beans, wheat and pea lesser degree, fruit and vegetables.
POTATO CULTURE: Potatoes are the main agricultural Panqueba and Gutiérrez entire province. According to research, in the last year potato production in the province reached 5% of the total production of the department, a figure of great importance if you consider that Boyacá with Antioquia and Nariño are the main producers of potatoes in the country. .
The main activity of the population of the Municipality of Panqueba corresponds to the Agriculture and Livestock, a minimum share of mining (sand mining).
STRENGTHS:
AGRICULTURE: As for agricultural activities in the municipality and the region in general emphasizes the cultivation of potatoes, corn, beans, wheat and pea lesser degree, fruit and vegetables.
POTATO CULTURE: Potatoes are the main agricultural Panqueba and Gutiérrez entire province. According to research, in the last year potato production in the province reached 5% of the total production of the department, a figure of great importance if you consider that Boyacá with Antioquia and Nariño are the main producers of potatoes in the country. .
TOURISM
Tourism both as Güicán Cocuy and have become more bold means that area because tourism has been frequency in seasons, not to mention that they have to show off to foreigners who are appearing monthly in these sites.
Peaks of the Sierra Nevada Guicán, Cocuy Guicán seen from Chita, left the White Ritacuba 5410 MASN
The town of Sierra Güicán of attraction and cultural as Natural National Park Cocuy Monument U'wa Indigenous tribute to the Cave of Cuchumba, the Cerro de Monserrate, a hot spring, the petroglyphs Malpaso, the Rock of the Dead or the Gloria, the city church, Chapel of Alto de San Ignacio, the Chapel of the village of San Antonio de la Cueva and colonial houses in villages and in the city center.
EDUCATION
Education both in the municipality of Cocuy as Güicán Township is projected to tourism and to the care, awareness and protection to all the inhabitants of such municipality must give those who are deployed tourists.
The work is led by the Government and implemented with resources and investment law 21 of the department for a total of 9000 billion pesos.
Removing the first stone of the old Normal Superior "Our Lady of the Rosary" Güicán Township, the Secretary of Education of Boyacá, Juan Carlos Martinez Martin made today's event to start the construction work of the new Institution Total Education, with the presence of the Assistant Director of Access and delegate of the Ministry of Education, Dr. Leon Dario Cardona, the mayor of the municipality, Juan de Jesus Estupiñan, representatives of the National Federation of Coffee Growers, regional coordinators-ARQ-auditors the work, councilors, parents and students.
The play is a regional macroproject led and managed by the Government of Boyacá through educational agency, accessing resources and investment law 21 of the department for a total of 9000 billion dollars, a figure that covers the total reconstruction of the school which must necessarily be restored according to the concept of Committee for Disaster Prevention and Attention-CREPAD.
The construction firm hired to perform the new institution is the firm Giraldo Jaramillo SA, a company in the event received the minutes of the start of the project that must be delivered to the first term of 2011, guaranteeing labor the municipality, to of supporting local families with employment generation policies. In the first stage of the project will be demolished Superior Normal so in the course of the work the students will be placed in the facilities of the Normal and the parish seat Appends the municipality.
The New Normal will accommodate up to 1600 students in a single day, benefiting the municipalities of El Espino, Panqueba, Macaws, Cocuy and other provinces of Gutierrez; further enable the development of higher education in the region with the arrival universities that have agreements for technical education for high school students and graduate students, thanks to appropriate facilities.
The project design was created keeping in mind the latest trends and will be implementing structural standards required by ICONTEC to earthquake resistant infrastructure access, and a solid foundation to continue to generate relevant and worthy educational quality for students Boyacá.
GEOGRAPHY
Physical Description:
Panqueba has an extension of 42 square kilometers, with a medium and cold climate, located on the eastern range
Limits of the municipality:
North: El Espino and Güicán
South: The Cocuy, San Mateo and Macaws
East: Güicán and Cocuy
West: El Espino and Macaws.
Total area: 42 km2
Extension urban area: 41.83 km2
Extension rural area: 0.17 km2
Altitude of the municipal (meters above sea level): 2258 masl
Average temperature: 16 º C º C
Reference distance: 245 kms away from the header Mpal. A department capital.
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ECOLOGY
Among native tree species are mangrove, cucharo, alder, willow, cedar, arra Yan, black bat, the chilco, the mortiño, the caper, the UVO, pine Colombian romerón hojarasco, the Garrocho pier, hand bear, cedrillo, the black staff and sietecueros. Among the exotic species that have adapted to the region are the Urapan, pine, eucalyptus, and various kinds of cold weather fruits like peach, apple and plum. Within the fruit grown in the region, so no tech, are the feijoa, orange, avocado, cherimoya, guava, papaya and banana. The wildlife consists mainly foxes, guartinajos, gouaches, armadillos, Faras, weasels, rabbits, and birds as Cardinal, the blackbird, the siote, owls, owls, doves and the partridge.
CIRCUIT SOATÁ, THE GÜICAN
The circuit begins to reach Soatá. It is located in the central-eastern part of the Cordillera Oriental, in the jurisdiction of the Northern Province and Gutierrez Boyacá Department, Western Sector Arauca Department and North-Western Sector of the Department of Casanare. This is the most broken in Dondo Department are the snowy peaks that make
Peoples of the Northern Province and Gutierrez: Soatá - Susacón - Boavita - La Uvita - San Pedro - Tipacoque - The Cocuy - Macaws - Güicán La Sierra - Panqueba.
WAYS TO ACCESS THE CIRCUIT
INLAND
ROUTE 1. From Bogota or Cll Highway 175 North, by the North Central Highway Duitama, 188 km in this city take the shuttle that takes you Soatá, 105 km will pass through the towns of Santa Rosa de Viterbo. Cerinza. Bethlehem. And finally Susacón Soatá.
You decide the route you take to get to El Cocuy or Güicán, people who are beginning or end, depending on how you start the ride adventure Los Nevados.
1A.Soatá-Boavita-La Uvita-San Mateo-Macaws-Panqueba-Güicán or Cocuy. 68 Km to Güicán - 67 to The cocuy.
1B. Soatá-Tipocoque-Capitanejo-El Espino-Panqueba-Güicán or Cocuy. 79 Km 78 Km Güicán-Cocuy. Approximate time 11-15 hours. BUSINESS
Starting from the transport terminal or Autopista Norte Bogota Cll 175. Bogota Duitama LIBERTADORES TRANSBOLIVAR COFLONORTE GACELA CONCORDE. AUTOBOY.
From Terminal Duitama,
LIBERTADORES GACELA these companies have an agreement, they travel on even days and odd GACELA LIBERTADORES, with four daily dispatches: 9:30 am/10: 00 pm 12 m / 1:00 am. CONCORDE COOTRADATIL 1 A / B.
FROM Soatá Terminal.
Route 2. From Bucaramanga there are two way to reach the circuit
Route 2A. Via San Gil - Mogotes - Onzaga - Soatá. (215Klm) Road: 22 Km pavement without rough pavement, 193 km
Route 2b. Via San Andres-Malaga-Capitanejo-El Espino-Panqueba-Güicán or Cocuy, (253 Km) Road pavement 103 km, 150 km unpaved
To reach the Nevados take routes 1A or 1B, described above.
Route 3. On the western Arauca Department: Tame-Sácama route Chita.
Route 4. From the northeast, Casanare Department: The tour is one hour between Cubará-The Chuscal (U'Wa indigenous reservation).
GENERAL MAP OF THE CIRCUIT 6 Güicán COCUY
Tourist routes within the circuit 6 Güicán Cocuy
A. Routes to the Natural Park COCUY
Sierra Nevada
Route 1 part from Güicán La Sierra.
Sierra Nevada Route 2 leaves from El Cocuy.
Route 3. People - Part from Soatá. Capitanejo route to Santander and return to La Uvita, proceed to San Mateo where he finds a nice Hotel.
Route 4. Peoples - home San Mateo, Macaws, staying at La Sierra or Güicán Cocuy. The return can make staying in Panqueba to visit Chiscas, and El Espino.
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