The municipality of Calima-El Darién is recognized as the main tourist destiny of the vallecaucanos by its matchless scenery, climate and diversity of activities that can be developed in their territory and the dam of Calima, Read More...

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CALIMA LAKE - El DARIÉN 
VALLE - COLOMBIA

In the most privileged place of the Calima lake, in front of the highway that leads to the municipality of the Darien with border to the lake is located MESON ILAMA. Throughout the year you will find a mild climate and an average temperature of 64,40ºF. 

It is the Third Place of the World as for the force and certainty of its winds, turning it the ideal site for the practice of the exciting activity of nautical sail.

In the area of calima, at the northwest of Cali, archaeology has recovered but of 9,000 years of history having found superposed vestiges of different societies that inhabited the zone in successive periods: Pre-ceramic of the first semi-nomads settlers and denominated ILAMA, YOTOCO and SONSO between the sedentary groups.

Towards the year 1500 B.C, sedentary agriculturalists, experts on an ample range of cultures, lived in comfortable houses constructed in small parts of the forest. Expert potters, left in their pots the first representations of the inhabitants of the region; people of forgotten name that the archaeologists denominate “ILAMA”.      

Territory ILAMA included smooth hills of the middling valley of the Calima and Dagua rivers and extended towards the slopes of the Pacific.