MUNICIPALITY OF LA PLATA
HUILA
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Municipality of La Plata (HUILA)
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Municipality of La Plata (HUILA)
Demonym
Plateños.
Another name that the municipality has received: Villa de San Sebastián de la Plata Folk Paradise of Huila, but the most common is Plateños.
Appellative
Huila Folk Paradise.
Its nickname is called this way because it was where the Sampedrian festivities were born in 1958, there the largest festivals of Huila were born three years later they began to be celebrated in Neiva, in the capital of Huila and that has crossed national borders, making known to the world the traditions and cultural expressions of the people who saw us born in Cultural identity.
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Sources of the Economy
The main productive systems are dual-purpose cattle ranching, agriculture. The agricultural sector is one of the most important lines in the economy of the Municipality is represented mainly by: coffee / plantain, banana, cocoa, corn, sugarcane, beans, potatoes; and some fruit trees such as lulo, tree tomato, blackberry and granadilla.
Festivities
Its main festivals are the Folklore for 62 years now.
The municipality of La Plata Huila has been characterized by being traditionally folkloric, focused on the festivities of San Pedro
Sebastián de La Plata, which has the nickname of the Folkloric Paradise of Huila, where the Sampedrian festivities were born in 1958, YES, the greatest festivals of Huila were born there, three years later they began to be celebrated in Neiva.
La Plata Huila ahead of Neiva in years in the celebration that has also been held since 1961 in the capital of Huila and that has crossed national borders, making known to the world the traditions and cultural expressions of the people who saw us born in Cultural identity.