Festival de la Cultura Cafetera en Viota Cundinamarca Colombia- TvAgro por Juan Gonzalo Angel

Twitter @juangangel Viotá is a municipality in Cundinamarca (Colombia), located in the Tequendama Province, 86 km from Bogotá. It has a warm climate. Originally, the site was called Biutá by the Muisca indigenous people. It was a border territory between the native Panches and the Muisca. In the valleys of the Calandaima River and towards the mountain range, stones with hieroglyphics and petroglyphs are found, evidence of indigenous settlement. The Spanish town of Santa Bárbara de Anapoima was founded as a parish on October 17, 1777. On February 8, 1782, it ceased to be dependent on Anapoima. On December 12, 1834, Don Matías Basurto donated the land where the town is located and its common lands to the parish church of Viotá. In 1843, its population was no more than 482, while by 1870, it had already registered 2,183 individuals. By 1884, its population had decreased to 1,850, perhaps due to the proliferation of civil wars and the transition of crops until the arrival of coffee. Coffee cultivation began in the late 19th century and reached its golden age in the 1920s and 1940s. In September 1902, Colonel Antonio Arbelaéz, leader of the Liberal guerrillas, was shot in Viotá Square by forces of the Conservative government. In 1905, the population, according to the census, rose to 4,537. A possible explanation for this growth (unusual within the provinces of Tequendama and Sumapaz) may be that a liberal group led by Generals Aurelio Mazuera y Mazuera and Antonio Morales Villalobos gained a foothold there during the Thousand Days' War. General Mazuera y Mazuera owned the "La Turena" hacienda and kept his conservative rivals relatively far from the area. At the "La Liberia" hacienda, these two generals signed the Treaty of Liberia, which brought peace to this region of Cundinamarca during the Thousand Days' War. By 1912, the population was reported to have reached 7,197, due to its status as a coffee-growing paradise. María Cano organized the Red Aid movement among tenant farmers, sharecroppers, settlers, and day laborers. Later, agrarian leagues or unions were organized, as well as the Colombian Communist Party, which gained strength in the region. During the La Violencia era, between 1946 and 1958, Viotá was defended by communists and liberals who prevented it from being occupied by conservative forces. A period of peace and the institutionalization of a local agrarian reform then allowed for forty years of progress in the municipality, interrupted by the international coffee crisis. This century saw a return to armed conflict and violence in the region. In recent years, its residents have done everything possible to overcome the armed crisis they were forced to endure and are now pursuing life plans that bear no resemblance to the past. Source: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viot%C3%A1 Juan Gonzalo Angel www.tvagro.tv