History of Suaita

Suaita Comunera is located in the province to 190 km from Bucaramanga, has an area of 298 km ² . Its inhabitants are 11,705, average height sobe sea level 1640 m, its endpoints are 1,100 m and 2,400 m, temperature 20 ° C, bounded on the north and Oiba Guadalupe, to the south and Chitaraque Gambita laying with Charalá East and the West with San Benito and Aguada.

This municipality has the privilege of being first in Colombia and perhaps Latin America that gave birth and grow an important industrial complex. The General Lucas Caballero founded in 1915 the cotton mill, booze and chocolates in San Jose Suaita.

Construction of the Temple of Our Lady of Candelaria or Purification, dates from 1952, its architecture and Mozarabic mix colonial and baroque style, made of hewn stone, with two Byzantine Gothic towers resembling highlights the domes of San Bacilio Moscow, onion-shaped domes, 16 columns with intermediate lanterns and arches inside midfielder. The clock gifted by Victor Martinez Villalba Industrial.

The House of Culture named after the master Luis Alberto Acuña , who founded and organized at present there rest some of his works.

The Lucas Caballero Cultural and Administrative Center, designed by Mr. Governor Hugo Aguilar , is the engine of cultural activities of the Municipality, has room Internet , Auditorium , Library , Living Crafts (Suaita artisans), Living Culture, Living Exhibition, Training Room, Museum of Governors Suaita, and also operates the City Council.