Economy of Sotara

stand higher yielding crops such as potatoes and some fruit mainly blackberry and strawberry. agricultural activities take place in a semi-traditional way of production or subsistence, in which the marketable surplus is minimal and do not function generator of growth through exchange of products on the market.

This exchange or marketing of products is minimal because it is produced in large quantities. The forestry is developed mostly by Smurfit Carton de Colombia in the following districts: La Paz, Hato Frio, Paispamba, stone and León Chiribio. Within the municipality are some farms that have forest plantations in the mode of participation accounts.

The agricultural sector is very important in the city's economy, particularly in regards to dual purpose cattle (breeding and milk), however production levels are not the best due to economic and technological nature limits presented this Fish farming activity is self-consumed crops and native species such as trout, sardines and Sabaletas commercially managed. More than half of the fish production in the municipality of concentrating on Ullucos, San Roque and Rioblanco sidewalk.

The extraction of materials from the river such as gravel, sand, ballast and exploitation of charcoal presents Sotará Township. This is an important item as an alternative income to the population.