Economy
Because of agriculture, los colonieros have spread around the grounds surrounding the valley when it started the boom in coffee exploitation. After growing his fruits and vegetables got good market in Caracas and La Victoria. Currently, weekends and holidays, near the Church, farmers and craftsmen set up a market with stalls that resemble typical houses with red roofs, offering local produce, mainly fruit, flowers, vegetables, plants, candy and crafts. Tovar also produces quality wooden casks, which are famous in and out of the mountain. Los coloneros also produce other crops and goods originating in European culture, such as peaches, tree tomato, passion fruit, strawberries, blackberries, figs, vegetables, bread, sausages, pastry, sauces and pasta, beer, wood, ceramics, wrought iron and crafts in general. With the influx of tourism from the 1960s, settled hotels in cozy and familiar cottages. Also installed restaurants in traditional huts, serving typical dishes of coloniera culture. Tourism, mainly from Caracas, Valencia and Maracay, has been replacing agriculture as the main economic activity in the Colonia since.
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