Interesting WebSites

Website of the Municipality of Guadalajara de Buga

http://guadalajaradebuga-valle.gov.co/

Website of the Señor de los Milagros de Buga
http://www.milagrosodebuga.com/

Local Channel CNC Website

http://www.bugavision.com/

Imder Buga Website
http://www.imderbuga.com/

website of the Camara de Comercio de Buga
http://www.ccbuga.org.co/

website of the Buga's Fair
http://www.feriadebuga.com/

website of festibuga
http://www.festibuga.com/

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Buga's Fair - La Feria de Buga

Everyone is invited!

XIV encuentro Departamental de poesía, canciones y arte pictórico (homenaje Alejandro Cabal Pombo)

XIV encuentro Departamental de poesía, canciones y arte pictórico (homenaje Alejandro Cabal Pombo)

made March 5, 2009, for the celebration of 439 years of Guadalajara de Buga.

Festibuga

Guadalajara de Buga is a city of contrasts, there was reconciled with the modern tradition, progress with respect to the past, faith in the joy. It has the charm of the cities in which privacy is still able to breathe, and neighborhood solidarity. It is interesting in this space which is part of a musical event features international. Each year, Guadalajara de Buga "Ciudad Señora de Colombia" is experiencing a very special experience, the realization of the FESTIVAL NACIONAL E INTERNACIONAL DE INTÉRPRETES DE LA CANCIÓN DE BUGA, better known as "FESTIBUGA".


The venue of this festival was the Teatro Maria Cristina, welcome reminder of the Bugueño and involved in several towns of the department and four representatives from other parts of the country.


Given the positive balance of an artistic version of the first Festival for the following year joined the organization in its efforts by the mayor and various civic associations and institutions, was institutionalize annual increase other ingredients such as the Kingdom of the Festival.
For 1974, the headquarters of the Festival was moved to the Concha Acústica which was named "Bernardo Romero Lozano".

Between the years 1974 and 1982 enabled the consolidation of the Festival and achieving notable progress in 1976 and the Festival in its international version. The trophy was instituted "The Old Chapel, Lord of Miracles", was broadcast on national television special, and with musicians of great national and international career. These events placed the festival in a place of importance in the art world in the 1982 playoffs and the finals have their own seat, premieres la Concha Acústica.


In 1985 and after two years of silence la Concha Acústica is decked again to welcome the representatives of the country and the musical world. The festival comes with a new board, with a structure and a new organization aiming at sustainability and success. They also legalized the Statute, by the importance and visibility of the event, it became necessary to expand coverage of social objectives. Why life was given legal creation of the Foundation for National and International Festival of Song Interpretes Buga "FESTIBUGA" non-profit Foundation, which promotes the culture in its various manifestations.

History of the Señor de Los milagros

This is a very pretty story, familiar to all the Bugueños.

History of the Señor de Los milagros

The year 1580 was a small hamlet Buga. Buga river then ran through the site where now the Temple of the Señor de los milagros. On the left side of the river had a straw "Ranchito" india where he lived an old woman whose office was doing laundry. His dream was to buy a crucifix and was collecting money for it until it joined seventy (70) reales. Would take to cure the price of the crucifix, as he passed through there a man, father, crying 'cause take him to the jail because it had seventy reales and what was not paid.

The Indian was filled with sadness and longing to leave their preferred later and helped the poor man, who blessed for having saved. Days later I was washing clothes outside again when brought by the river came into his hands a crucifix, she was the most precious jewel. As it could not belong to anybody because it was completely uninhabited upstream, was happy with his discovery and he improvised an "altarcito" and lovingly placed it in a wooden box.

One night he heard tapping on the site where he kept the picture and took a big surprise when he saw the Holy Christ and the box had grown significantly, but that it was imagined illusion from your eyes weakened by age.

The image continued to grow and when he said, was already close to a meter height.
She told the gentlemen of the most important people, who see it and realize that the poor lady had no money to get a cross of this size was confirmed that a miracle.

Devotees start removing pieces to carry and were to deteriorate to a special visitor arrived from Popayán ordered burned. Being thrown into the flames the image began to sweat copiously during two days so that the neighbors soaked cotton swabs to take as relics and get healing. The year was 1607.

After this image was more beautiful. People began to have great devotion to this miracle and come from all pilgrims and pilgrimages to visit the sick to obtain healing and achieving benefits the needy.

After these events the chronicle of 1819, the Ranchito the elderly became a meeting place for devotees and was given the name by which he is known for centuries "El Señor de Los Milagros".

After the death of the old woman thought to be the place where the crucifix should be placed. "Ranchito" his left near the water and grew, it changed its course and turned away, he left open the site near the place of its occurrence, to build their temple, which was built small and it was called "La Ermita".

The Holy Christ is a touching image, carved in wood, but this has been fortified with pulp and is well conserved, despite its age. The cross is 1.70 meters high and 1.30 wide. The image is dark. The cross is the sign INRI (meaning: "Jesus Nazarene, King of the Jews"), the emerging rays of silver cross, which had gifted his devotees and the crown is gold and precious stones. Head of the Holy Christ is highly inclined, for their injuries, especially on the side, pour plenty of blood, hair bloodied also falls into two bundles on their shoulders. The face haunted by the pain kept an expression of resignation and impressive majesty. The eyes are closed and lips ajar.

Images (in order of appearance)
1. Statue and mural in the Hermitage, represent the story of the milagroso de Buga
2. Aerial view of the lower basilica of the Señor de los Milagros
3. The Hermitage, located in the place where was the "Ranchito"'s india
4. Statue representing the time that india is the crucifix
5. Señor de los Milagros de Buga

"Plegaria al Milagroso" por el Charrito Negro

La Basilica del Señor de Los milagros

The Minor Basilica of the Señor de Los Milagros is a Colombian Catholic minor basilica located in Guadalajara de Buga (Valle del Cauca). It is located in Zone 4 Buga Historic Center, three blocks from the Cathedral of St. Peter the Apostle, cathedral of the Diocese of Buga, and one of the Church of St. Francis of Assisi, also belonging to the diocese.

The first stone of the building was blessed by Monsignor Ortiz, Archbishop of Popayán, in which event the President of the United States of Colombia, Rafael Nuñez, also participated. The construction took fifteen years, in which case, among others, the War of a Thousand Days. On August 2, 1907, the temple was opened, and June 23, 1937 Pope Pius XI granted him the title of basilica minor (by Cardinal Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli, who later became Pope Pius XII) .

The church is 33 m and 80 m long and has a French clock installed March 18, 1909.

Four Videos About My Beautiful City (In Spanish)

General Information

Altitude:	969 m.s.n.m.
Temperature:	23 degrees centigrade. .
Extension:	832 Km2.
Poblation:	Approximately 114,439 habitants.
Distance:	73.1 km from Cali.
Year of foundation:	1555.
Founderr:	Giraldo Gil de Estupiñán.
Municipality Since:	1884 (Ordinance No.1 from February 19).
Origin of the name:	Was originally called Jerez de los Caballeros, then Guadalajara de Buga and was capital of the Department of Buga before creating the department of Valle.
Geographical Features:	It has a flat region to the north and mountains to the East.
Principal Rivers:	Cauca, Guadalajara, Loro, Sonso, Tuluá, bogs and the Chircal Cedral.
Principal economic activity:	Agriculture, Trade and Industry.
Principal Products:	Cotton, Soybeans, Corn, Millo, coffee, sugar cane, Barley, Potato, Banana yFrijol.
Turistics Apeals:	The sanctuary of the Lord of Miracles and its colonial architecture.
Fairs and Festivals::	Agricultural Fair exhibition in July, home of the Festival of Song, Festibuga International in August.
Culinary Specialty:	The Manjar Blanco, Jellies and Preserves the crystallized lemon and orange.
Basic Infrastructure:	It has all utilities, insurance, banks, hospitals, stadium, 21 schools, 13 pre-schools, 52 colleges and universities.
Other Features:	This is one of the 6 cities of Valle del Cauca over 100,000.

Hymn of Guadalajara de Buga

HIMNO DEL MUNICIPIO DE BUGA

Letra: Dr. José Ignacio Ospina G.

Música: Agustín Payán Arboleda.

Coro:
Salve, Salve, ciudad reina ilustre
hoy tus hijos rendidos te aclaman
y en este himno su amor te consagran
salve, salve, ciudad reina ilustre.
I
Entre azules montañas andinas
do natura prodiga ferviente
los tesoros de un cielo esplendente
sus bellezas y gracias divinas.
II
Te destacas , oh reina Caucana
en un prado cubierto de rosas
que te ofrecen su amor voluptuosas
triunfadora, gentil soberana.
III
Cual vestal que oficiara en su templo
consagrado a la Diosa Hermosura
Todo en Ti sugestiona y fulgura al poder
del altísimo ejemplo.
IV
De tu vida modesta y austera
dejas huella imborrable en la historia
de honradez, de grandeza y de gloria,
de altivez y virtud verdadera.
V
De tus hijos la sangre preciosa,
en la lid bienhechora y sublime,
que a los pueblos esclavos redime
por doquiera corrió generosa.
VI
Si el martirio y la ciencia de un hombre
eternizan de un pueblo la fama,
tu existencia sin fin la proclama el ilustre
Cabal con su nombre.

Guadalajara de Buga's Signs

The Buga's flag as historians is the same as flying in the Battle of the Alto Palace, led by José María Cabal.
Flag vowed that the July 20 1813 the armies of Nariño, in launching the campaign in the south, consisted of three horizontal strips, with the following colors: yellow gold, signifying the wealth of our soil, the average color of the strip Green shows the fertility of our land and the lower red, symbolizing the blood spilled and the patriotism of the sons of heroes Guadalajara de Buga, for the sake of independence.
Buga's Flag is about the same state of Cartagena in 1812, which died in the Atanasio Girardot wrapped on top of Bárbula.

The shield is of Spanish, holds in the upper crown, which symbolizes the majesty and offspring of the Spanish Crown. It is divided into three quarters: the top contains a double-sized bright sun, which means the geographical location of Buga in the tropics, the bottom left shows a pair of "halberdiers" in balance with their arms, signifying that the king did Plaza de Armas and the lower right section contains the figure of two lions to express the greatness and courage of the children of Guadalajara de Buga.

Guadalajara de Buga, The Madam City (Guadalajara de Buga, La ciudad Señora)

(Image: Guadalajara de Buga, 1880).
Guadalajara de Buga, is a small town of Valle del Cauca, and one of the oldest cities in Colombia, according to historians had four foundations in different places and at different dates.

At the time of the conquest, their lands were habited by various and brave warrior tribes.
Buga's name comes from the tribes that populate the upper valleys of the Cordillera (Image: Guadalajara de Buga, view from the "Derrumbado") Central, where he founded "Buga la vieja". Etymologically speaking, the name of Buga is an Caribbean word and means "Pais de la Lanza(Land of the Spear)."
Note that Pijao, the Bugas and the Quinamanoes were Caribbean descent, from archipelagos Antilleans penetrated into the hinterland through rivers Colombians to settle in the mountains and valleys.


The first time was founded by the master Giraldo Gil de Estupiñan, in the headwaters of the Rio Buga La Grande, in the year 1555, giving it the name "Nueva Jerez de Los Caballeros" which was soon attacked, looted and burned by Pijao Indians, killing many, among them at the same founder. It was rebuilt in the territory of the Indians in the region Quinamanoes called "Babaya" which was located in the mountains at the foot of the Cerro Pan de Azúcar.

(Image: Guadalajara de Buga in The Valle del Cauca Department)

The second foundation was renamed the "Guadalajara de Buga" and third with the same name, later to become the capital of the province between 1834 and 1887, the year in which it was incorporated as a municipality. in 1908 was the capital of the department for twenty months to the creation of the Department of Valle in Cali as its capital.


The King Felipe II of Spain, gave him the title of City in the late sixteenth century and was granted its coat of arms for the many services rendered to the crown. Thus, in 1810 Buga was part of the confederated cities of Valle del Cauca and provided blood and patriotism of her children, including that of General José María Cabal, Francisco and Miguel Cabal. On January 11, 1822, the Liberator Simón Bolívar visited Buga, turning 26 and
December 27, 1829, two commemorative plaques placed in the houses where we stayed recall this event.







Guadalajara de Buga's coat of arms