typical drinks are made of lulo, mora, and passion fruit. These make the base of a drink that may be strengthened by a local liquor called chapil or aguardiente. Sports The city has developed an extensive sports culture, both recreational and competitive. Football is one of the main sports practiced in the city since November 1909 when Leslie Osmond Spain, a British citizen who was visiting the area for commercial purposes, organised a football match in a makeshift court in the Barrio of San Andrés, and formed the first football team three months into his stay. The city is home to Deportivo Pasto, a team founded in 1949, which was a semi-pro team until 1996 when it was promoted to the Primera B, which turned the club professional. Two years later it was promoted to the top league of Colombian professional football, the Primera A. In June 2006, the club was crowned champion of the league for the first time in its history, sending the city's residents into celebrations. Pasto is home to many outstanding athletes, which include the race walker Luis Fernando López (medalist in the 2011 World Athletics Championships), and footballer Carlos Daniel Hidalgo (top scorer of the 2003 FIFA U-17 World Cup). In Pasto, as in other towns of Nariño and in some regions of Ecuador, a traditional sport, very old and unparalleled in other regions of Colombia, called Chaza is practiced. Chaza is a ball game, similar to tennis or jai alai, characterized by the use of heavy wood and leather shoe called drums and played in teams on a rectangular court. Sport areas Estadio Departamental Libertad, main stadium in the city, capacity for 20,000 Sergio Antonio Ruano arena Arena in the Southeast Neighborhoods, (used primarily for indoor soccer, basketball and volleyball) Recreational Sports Complex Obonuco, which has a skating rink, cycling track, and BMX area References External links Photos of the "Carnaval de Blancos y Negros" Universidad de Nariño Photos Carnaval de Negros Y Blancos Pasto Mayor's office Pasto Volcanological and Seismological Observatory - INGEOMINAS] Sobre el barniz de Pasto Pasto Weather Populated places established in 1539 Municipalities of Nariño Department Capitals of Colombian departments 1539 establishments in the Spanish Empire