(Prensa.com) In the vicinity of Baru volcano in the province of Chiriqui, is a window that connects the past, an archaeological site describes the history of Aboriginal people who lived 300 years before Christ.
These are the traces left Barriles culture, whose inhabitants disappeared with the first eruption of Baru volcano, 600 years after Christ.
Barriles culture is considered high national and international archaeological importance, says the National Institute of Culture, which also makes it a showplace.
The story goes that when a tree collapsed objects surfaced among these stones carved in the shape of barrels found former inhabitants, so they called so that community within the village of Volcano.
Barrels farm holiday on the farm, visitors can observe the excavations which have brought the pieces, as well as visiting a museum is a collection of carved stone that were used by primitive in their daily lives. Medicinal plants are also of volcanic origin and medicinal mud bath.
For Flogerzi Gery, a Californian who was visiting his wife in farm Barrels, this area is genuine. “It’s like going to the source of a museum, you see many things that are under glass in the museum and this is where it happened, the source,” he said.
In 1924, coffee was grown farm Barrels, later turned to livestock since 1998 and welcomes tourists. Remained in place pre-Columbian pieces, then in 2001 excavations were carried out for a science project where new archaeological pieces found.
Barrels agritourism farms in Chiriqui and Boca Vieja, in the province of Veraguas, are the only two rural tourism sites that blend the archaeological wealth to agriculture.
Boca Vieja on the farm in the district Mariato, develop livestock, while visits are made to an Indian cemetery where antiquities were found.
“They are important for the archaeological value, the history of our ancestors and combine attractive agribusiness,” Bruno said Mojica, special projects coordinator at the Ministry of Agricultural Development (MIDA).
These two properties are a sample of the boom has been the creation of agritourism farms certified in the country now number 104.
Chiriquí Western Panama, Cocle and Veraguas are places where there is further development of the farms.
In these places, tourists daily living activities of the rural, interact with animals, culture, enjoy the food and biodiversity. To foster this development, looks include agrotourism Measure in the benefits of Act 25 of agricultural transformation, in order to be accredited as part of the investment to the producer.