The best road cycling routes in Belalcázar

Anserma, also known as Santa Ana de los Caballeros or Old Anserma, is located in the western part of the department of Caldas. It was founded on August 15, 1539, and has a population of 33,792. Its main communication route is the Western Trunk Highway. It was one of the first Spanish settlements created in Colombia, founded by Marshal Jorge Robledo. Its economy is primarily based on coffee farming. TRANSPORTATION: The Western Trunk Highway connects the cities of Medellín (to the north), Pereira, and Cali (to the south). Communication with Manizales, the capital of Caldas, is primarily via the Risaralda (Caldas) - Arauca (Palestine district) - Manizales route (64 km). There are three airports nearby: Matecaña in Pereira, Santa Ana in Cartago, and La Nubia in Manizales.

The La Plata area is a small tourist corridor along the old road to Santagüeda. In this area there are several summer farms, an indigenous community called Ambacheke with a population of 90 people, this population has been in the municipality of Palestine for more than 30 years and has a governor. Likewise, in the educational part it has the José María Carbonell School and healthy recreation sites. Among its projects is to create a snack bar where you can enjoy typical dishes from the region and fast food, to combine the local with the external, create and encourage educational tourism, the free market, handicrafts in bamboo and coffee, exploitation of the Municipal nursery, continue with the sericulture project, the cultivation of flowers, among others. The lack of drinking water created problems and illnesses in its population, especially among children, but thanks to a project of the Caldas government it was possible to solve it with the installation of a 7 km pipeline that comes from the Cartagena area. .

Arauca is a district under the jurisdiction of the municipality of Palestina (Caldas). Located on a ravine on the right bank of the Cauca River, it is an active point that links the center of the Department of Caldas with the Lower West. The name "Arauca" appears mentioned in the stories of the civil wars, at the same time that La Margarita is mentioned as one of the most important estates in that sector. In the forties and fifties of the twentieth century, its boom was unusual because it was an active train station. If one got on in Arauca, one could go directly to La Virginia, to many cities in the Cauca Valley. People and merchandise in all directions. Many of the employees of the vacation centers and condominiums in the La Rochela sector live in Arauca. In this district, construction materials are extracted from the Chinchiná River and tributaries of the Cauca. Arauca has an active trade. Especially, the purchase of coffee and cocoa.

It is a Colombian municipality located in the southwest of the department of Caldas and together with the municipalities of Viterbo, Belalcázar, San José and Anserma, make up the so-called prosperous West or Lower West Caldense, it has an altitude of 1713 meters above sea level and a temperature of approximately 18 Cº. Its economy revolves around the production of coffee, bananas and corn because it is a mountainous area. Risaralda is also known as "the hill of the wind" due to the constant passage of the wind between its steep streets. It also has a large number of paths among which are:

This was the old road to the municipality of Palestine, but it was closed due to tectonic faults that passed through the site and the poor management of the waters that have helped lead to the end of this road.

Entrance to the San José road via pavement, with good demands for road bikes, it is approximately 3 km and some sections have an incline of 10%. You can access this small town in several ways, by going up Asia, or by Belalcázar or Risaralda.

Toll located on the Coffee Highway, a dual carriageway that connects Manizales with Armenia and Pereira. It was built using guadua (bamboo), which is grown in the region where it is located. Design by architect Simón Vélez has been recognized worldwide for his constructions in guadua

It is located on the Pan-American highway between Chinchiná and Manuela, along this same road is the FODUN recreational headquarters (fund of teaching employees of the National University of Colombia). If you enter through this road, you will exit at the other tollbooth, the Pavas tollbooth.