At the end of June, the municipality of Milan, on the banks of the Caquetá River, celebrates the San Pedro Festival, traditional throughout the department of Caquetá, as well as Huila.
 
The history and customs of the municipality and the region are celebrated with a parade of floats and troupes with motifs alluding to Milanese traditions. During the weekend you can also enjoy live music in the town's central park with local artists and special guests of national stature.
 

In Morelia, a municipality whose head is located just 25 kilometers from Florencia (Caquetá), the popular Summer Festival is celebrated at the beginning of the year, an event that has been taking place for fifteen years and has become one of the festivities most anticipated by the inhabitants of this town in the Amazon foothills.
 

In August in the municipality of La Montañita, about 30 kilometers from the departmental capital Florencia, the Cultural Festival of the Return (Festival Folclórico y Cultural Municipal La Montañita) takes place, a festival that pays tribute to the traditions and culture of the region.
 

In July the municipality of El Paujil, in the Amazon foothills of Caquetá, celebrates its Folkloric Festival and Traditions of Our People "San Pedro En El Paujil".
 
The festivities begin at dawn on Friday with a great dawn that starts from the main park and travels through the streets of the town, waking up the neighbors and inviting them to join the celebrations. 

At the end of June in El Doncello, a municipality in the Amazon Foothills in Caquetá, the traditional San Pedro festivities (Fiestas San Pedrinas) are celebrated, in which you can see the strong influence of the Huilense culture in the region, the result of the colonization routes through which The settlement of this region occurred since the first decades of the 20th century.
 

In October, the municipality of Cartagena del Chairá, on the banks of the Caguán River in Caquetá, receives delegations from each of the 16 municipalities of the department, who meet there to celebrate the “Diosa Del Chaira” Folklore Integration Festival, whose name pays tribute to one of the most significant myths of the indigenous peoples of the region.
 

In mid-July, Belén de los Andaquíes dresses up for the celebration of the San Pedro festivities, which in this municipality 45 kilometers south of Florencia are celebrated with the Cultural Meeting of the Mountain Man.
 
During the weekend, the Belemites celebrate their culture and traditions with activities such as the parade of floats and troupes with motifs alluding to the history and customs of the town or rafting events and cast net competition in the Pescado River that highlight the fishing vocation of the municipality. 

On December 7 in Salamina, municipality of Caldas located about 70 kilometers north of Manizales, the Night of Fire (La Noche del Fuego) is celebrated, an ancient celebration whose origins can be traced back to the second half of the 19th century, with which the people of Salamina pay tribute to their patron saint, the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception, on the eve of her festival.
 
For one night the electric light is turned off, giving way to hundreds of lanterns and candles that decorate the streets of the town.

Located in the heart of coffee-growing land in Caldas, the economic life of the municipality of Chinchiná revolves around this product, as testified by the largest coffee cup in the world, installed in the central square of the town, and the freeze-dried coffee factory that operates there. since the 1970s. 

In honor of its coffee vocation, the Coffee Carnivals (Carnavales del Café) are held during the All Saints' long weekend in Chinchiná.
 

In October in San José, a small municipality located about 60 kilometers west of Manizales, the Myths and Legends Festival (Fiestas de Mitos y Leyendas) is celebrated.
 
The origin of these festivals dates back to the 20th century when, seeing that the felling of forests was about to destroy the nearby water sources, the parish priest and other local authorities decided to spread the myth of the duende, a character who supposedly hurt the people who They cut down trees to make firewood.