participated in the
Korean War. Firavitoba distinguished by
agriculture and handicrafts in wool and sisal. Currently
its economy is based mainly on livestock, with races like the Normande and
Holstein. Currently still occur espadrilles in sisal and thread,
like ponchos and shawls. Jumbles are also produced, as
mogollas, almojábanas bread and wood-fired. Firavitoba
is 10 kilometers from Sogamoso by paved and flat pathway. The
municipality has 16 villages (San Antonio, Baratoa, El Bosque, Calavernas,
Diravita Alto, Diravita Llano, Mombita Alto, Mombita Llano, Irboa, La Victoria,
nuns, Cartagena, Tintal, Gotua, Ocan, Alcaparral) and six districts Cayetano
Abella , San Pedro, Santa Helena, El Progreso, Las Nieves, Santa Agueda.
Attractions
of the town's main attraction is the town of Firavitoba his temple, built
entirely in stone between 1873 and 1937. "In September 1869 took
over the parish Father Ignacio Ramón Avella, who saw that the temple was
falling had the idea of making a new one brought Paris model, which was
labeled by the inhabitants of the season absurd and preposterous, for the
construction have difficulty compounded by the lack of financial resources and
appropriate to carry out technical, "the historical review of Guillermo
Alberto Camargo. It has a majestic canopy
(canopy supported by columns) above the main altar, which in Colombia are only
two: one in the Cathedral of Manizales and the other in the church of
Firavitoba. This temple is regarded as
the country's largest
