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northern region of the department of huila
AIPE
limits: north and west with the department of Tolima (municipalities of Natagaima, Ataco and Planadas); East: with the Magdalena River (Municipality of Villavieja and Tello); south: with the Municipality of Neiva.
located in the northwest of the department of Huila. It has a territorial extension of 801.04 km². It is located at an altitude of 350 meters above sea level, with an average annual temperature of 28.4 ° C. It is located on the left bank of the Magdalena River. It has a population of 29,177 inhabitants
They consider Doña Teresa and Don Enrique Cortes as founders, at the beginning of 1741 they gave 80 hectares to establish a new town In 1770, the ecclesiastical and civil hierarchy of Neiva built the church Nuaestra Señora de los Dolores and in 1772 there was a population of 886 population.
In 1872 it was transferred from its old place in Puerto de Palomito to the place that is located further north; On April 8, 1912, it was created as a Municipality by the Departmental Assembly.
economy: it is mainly occupied by rural homes that are based on the development of agricultural activities, it is a large oil producer, where more than 120 wells are exploited, Agricultural, Industrial and Mining activities that are production lines developed by the inhabitants of this area, highlighting the red mojarra, cachama and carp breeding; chicken and egg production; dual-purpose cattle raising (fattening and rearing). Minerals such as: phosphate rock, coal, barite and clay are highlighted in mining.
Places: Tropical Dry Forest, Piedra Pintada, Piedras del callejón, Moyas de Lourdes, petroglyphs of cartama, the house of the poira, the cave of the Indian
ALGEIRAS
limits: north: municipality of Hobo; south: municipality of Gigante; east: municipality of Rivera; west: Hobo municipality
it is on the middle part of the Magdalena valley, framed between the eastern mountain range, bordering the department of Caquetá. its territorial extension is 672 km², its height is 1,528 meters above sea level and its average temperature is 20-22 ºC. It has a population of 24,708 inhabitants
In 1824, the brothers Gabriel and Miguel Perdomo Buendía, accompanied by several workers, arrived in search of their fortune on the hill of the Eastern Cordillera, which bathes the Quebradón, the Rioblanco and the Dantas. The following year Miguel Antonio Ortiz arrived, accompanied by some relatives, attracted by the exploitation of rubber and cinchona, very abundant in that Colombian area and with the news already spread throughout the country, that in addition, that part of the mountain range was exceptionally rich in gold. Later the brothers Gabriel and Miguel Perdomo Buendía, returned to cut the mountain, to exploit the rubber and cinchona and to make the first plantations that should ensure their livelihood and permanence in the region. When the price of cinchona fell in such a way that their search in those regions was not justified and the legend of gold was diluted, the settlers decided to abandon their business and move to the valley.
April 8, 1924, giving it the name of San Juanito, a name that it carried until June 16, 1937, the date on which its name was changed to Algeciras, according to departmental ordinance no. 036 in honor of the Spanish city of Algeciras, in Andalusia. The name change was officially communicated to the community, through a campaign in which all the doors of the houses woke up with the name "Algeciras" written in white chalk.
economy: Agriculture, livestock, hunting, forestry and fishing, Mining and quarrying, Manufacturing industry,
Trade, repair, tourism
places: the Satia farm, The festivities take place in mid-July where parades are held, floats are decorated, music, gunpowder, presentation of various orchestras, dances
BARAYA
it is on the eastern slope of the upper valley of the Magdalena River, towards the foothills of the western flank of the eastern mountain range. Its territorial extension is 737 km², its height is 730 meters above sea level and its average temperature is 28ºC. It has a population of 10,234 inhabitants
Limits: North: Department of Tolima (Alpujarra) and municipality of Colombia. South: Municipality of Tello and department of Meta. Oriente: Municipality of Colombia and Department of Meta. West: Municipality of Villavieja.
The territory of this municipality was part of the jurisdiction of Villavieja with the name of La Nutria, probably from the name of the stream that bathes it. A good part of the Baraya area comprised the boundaries of the hacienda, also known today as Reyes, possibly named after its original owner, the priest Mario Tadeo de Reyes, priest of Neiva. It should be noted that Hacienda Reyes had most of the territories of the current municipalities of Villavieja, Tello and Baraya. The first inhabitants who took possession of the lands of La Nutria were the Guarocoes and the Nutrios Indians, mainly dedicated to agriculture.
In 1841 it was already mentioned as the region of Santa María de la Nutria. This circumstance motivated many merchants to move to the place promoting this activity and giving Baraya a greater boom in this field in later years. This gave reason for it to be erected as the "Village of the Otter" by provision of the law December 5, 1870. The legislative assembly of the sovereign state of Tolima, by law 51 of 1884 ... "Out of gratitude and with the laudable purpose of immortalizing the name of the hero of independence, General Antonio Baraya, they request that the name of La Nutria be changed to Baraya »he reestablished the extinct Village of the Nutria with the name of Baraya, by the same limits that he assigned to the Otter village law December 5, 1870.
Places: Suspension bridge near Baraya, Interior of the parish temple, Old house, headquarters of Culture, Tower of the parochial church in Baraya, Baraya main park
economy: it is purely agricultural and livestock, basing its economy on agriculture and livestock mainly, and to a lesser extent fish farming and mining; the commercial and tourist activity is still incipient.
CAMPOALEGRE
founded August 14, 1809 by Hilario Perdomo, Margarita Herrera and Others. First Settlers. When the conquerors reached the plains and valleys of Campoalegre in 1539, they found the Tamas aboriginal tribe, who inhabited the region from Garzón on the right bank of the Magdalena River to the current Arenoso River. In that year, the site of the Tapias, today Neiva Viejo near the Otás village, the city of Neiva was founded for the first time, by Captain Juan de Cabrera; This first population had a short life, when it was destroyed 20 years later by the Tamas Indians and their allies. For almost 300 years Campoalegre did not exist as a populated center in the regional context, being replaced in its functions by the population of Otas, a village of indigenous origin, founded in the colony by the Agustina community to indoctrinate the natives of the Tucano family.
economy: the rice capital of Huila, Although rice cultivation is the emblem there is also a cocoa forest, coffee cultivation and many vegetables, Tobacco and Sorghum cultivation, cattle, intensive fish farming and electricity generation.
places: La Siberia Natural Park, the rice festivals in Campoalegre with their parades, the municipal reign, dances, gunpowder, music
Its territorial extension is 485 km², its height is 525 meters above sea level and its average temperature is 27ºC. It has a population of 34,923 inhabitants
limits: north: municipality of Rivera; South: municipality of Algeciras; East: municipality of rivera; West: Hobo municipality
COLOMBIA
It has a territorial extension of 1,698 km². It is located at an altitude of 850 meters above sea level, with a temperature of approximately 24ºC. It has a population of 12,778 inhabitants
limits: North: departments of Tolima and Cundinamarca; south: municipality of Baraya and the department of Meta; east: department of Meta; west: with the department of Tolima and the municipality of Baraya.
The Municipality of Colombia-Huila was founded in 1845 by José María Acevedo with his sons Policarpo and Fortunato, Don Críspulo Cedeño and Don Lorenzo Lozada who upon arrival found support from the inhabitants who were in the region and decided to build their little ones there. and few rooms. The name of Colombia has no antecedent to prove the reason for its name. Verbal reports from some elders say that they called it Colombia because the elders of the municipalities of Alpujarra and Dolores found it very far away, which was like traveling to another Colombia. San Francisco was called the hacienda that covered the area where the municipality of Colombia is today, and as a memory the San Francisco neighborhood that bears that name remained.
Colombia is known as "THE CITY OF CARDOS" because it is the only municipality in the country that has an abundant variety of thistles that present beautiful and rare characteristics followed by the thorny mountain of Guajira. Colombia is a municipality of great importance for the integral development of the region, its strategic location gives it a character of invariable scenery scenery that makes it an attractive place. By natural privilege Colombia Huila enjoys all climates.
Places: San Ezequiel waterfall, Pico de Oro tower, Tembladera lagoon, San Antonio lagoon, Marias waterfall, San Roque stream
economy: agriculture, livestock, fish farming, industry-agribusiness, construction
HOBO
Its territorial extension is 217 km², its height is 594 meters above sea level and its average temperature is 25 ºC. It has a population of 7,043 inhabitants
founded on
September 5, 1805 by Jose Ignasio Trujillo recognizes his conception of the 16th century through the appearance of a hamlet of Franciscan Fathers known as San Juan Bautista de Hobo, serving the Páez indigenous Nation. By 1856 there were already estates belonging to the brotherhoods such as San Carlos, Guasimilla, Abejón, el Pescador, with more than 3,000 cattle and functioning as production units of the territorial. During this same period the Hobo was an area formed in the valley of hills covered with natural grass. The production and commercialization of cocoa together with cattle exploitation were the main economic activities in the region at the end of the 19th century.
By 1905, the Hobo had 2,000 inhabitants and the province of Hobo belonged to, coffee crops were already registered, smaller farms that were equivalent to 2.1% of departmental production in 1935. In other words, coffee began to take economic leadership, in the 1940s an increase to 5.1% and later the region was strengthened by the increase in cocoa cultivation and the appearance of sorghum during the 60s and 70s. At the production level, the agricultural exploitation generated more employment than the cattle one. Coffee production is currently the main economic product and agriculture with traditional forms of exploitation in a high percentage fulfills self-consumption functions.
The road axis that runs along the eastern bank of the Magdalena River connecting cities such as Hobo - Campoalegre - Hobo - Gigante - Garzón -Pitalito, historically condition the development of the region and the appearance of urbanization and colonization models that determined the system. of current urban settlement, only towards the thirties. Comparatively, since 1984 the municipality is of significant departmental importance in the exploitation of tourist, recreational and fishing resources on the edge of the Betania Reservoir.
economy: it is based mainly on livestock that presents herds of great value for the quantity and quality of their cattle. Others such as agriculture, mainly with crops of coffee, cocoa, cane, sugar, achira and corn and in the plains rice, tobacco and vine (grape). Due to its proximity to the Betania dam, they have developed ecotourism and large-scale fish farming as other sources that contribute to the productive sector of the municipality.
places: the Betania Dam Reservoir, El Puerto Mómico,
Limits: North: municipalities of Yagura, Campoalegre; South: municipality of Algeciras; East: municipality of Algeciras; West: municipalities of Gigante and Yagura
IQUIRA
The foundation of Iquira dates from 1694 by order of Francisco Martínez de Ospina who gives the name of San Francisco de Iquira to a town built in what is currently known as the alley, exactly the territories of the El Carmen farms, La Mestiza and San Mateo. That is why it is given the name of "high mountains" as the meaning that the primitive voices gave to the word Iquira.
In 1672 the captains Francisco Perdomo de Betancourt, Francisco Trujillo y Castro, Alfonso de Montealegre and others, tried to elevate the village to the category of town with the name of Callejón de Iquira. As a result of the aforementioned war and in view of the ravages left by it, the possibility of lowering Iquira to the category of township was considered, making it belong to Yaguará again, a situation that was never consolidated.
economy: agricultural production, coffee monoculture, extensive livestock, also cocoa plantations, cassava, banana, corn, semi-annual crops such as beans, peas, vegetables, fruit trees, granadilla, blackberry, lulo, tree tomato
places: Nevado del Huila National Natural Park and Alto Banderas Municipal Forest Reserve
Its territorial extension is 516 km², its height is 1400 meters above sea level and its average temperature is 20-25 ºC. It has a population of 13,612 inhabitants
Limits: north: the municipality of Teruel; south: the municipality of Thessaly; east: the municipalities of Teruel and Yaguará; west: Nátaga and the department of Cauca.
NEIVA
Limits: North: municipalities of Aipe and Tello, South: municipality of Tello and Caqueta; East: municipalities of Palermo and Rivera; West: municipality Palermo and Tolima
Its territorial extension of 1,533 km², its height of 442 meters above sea level and its average temperature of 27.7 ° C. It has 488,927 inhabitants.
In the year 1539, Captain Don Juan de Cabrera founded the city for the first time on the site that today is known as Las Tapias, in Otás, Campoalegre, on the right bank of the Neiva River, in the domain of the Indians. Tamas. The third foundation was made on May 24, 1612, in the place that Don Diego de Ospina y Medinilla occupies today, as the capital of the province of Páez, which in 1610 had been separated from the government of Popayán and had as its capital to the city of San Sebastián de La Plata.
Bust of Diego de Ospina y Medinilla - Founder of Neiva. With a growth trend towards the east, in 1947 there were 332 Hectares, in 1960 its urban area added 503 Hectares, in 1967 it had 790 Hectares, in 1985 its developed area was 1794 Hectares and currently its urban area occupies approximately 2380 Hectares that represent 52% of the area located within the urban perimeter.
places: Extreme Park; La Sangre de Cristo Spiritual Park;
Playa Juncal Water Park; La Tatacoa Desert; Las Termales tourist recreational center; Colonial Temple; Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of Neiva; National Post and Telegraph Building
economy: agriculture and livestock. Its main crops are coffee, cotton, irrigated rice, beans, technified corn, traditional corn, sorghum, cocoa, panela cane, banana, cassava, iraca and tobacco. cattle. industrial sector: oil and natural gas exploitation
PALERMO
By tradition it is known that at the end of the 16th century there already existed a small town with the name of Santa Rosalía de Guagua, on the banks of the Nilo stream. The official foundation was carried out by Manuel Pérez in 1690 with the name of Guagua. It reached the category of municipality in 1782 and its name was changed to Palermo in 1906 due to religion.
economy: The main productive systems being dual-purpose cattle farming, agriculture, fish farming (hot and cold), pig farming. with crops of: rice, coffee, plantain, banana, cocoa, corn, sugarcane, beans, potato; and some fruit trees such as lulo, tree tomato and blackberry.
places: Camino Real de Buenos Aires, El Puente de Arco; Charco del Boquerón and El Poira; El Pailón Spa; La Mesa de Hernández; Colonial Temple; Sanctuary of Santa Rosalía
Limits: north: Neiva, south: Teruel and Yaguará; east: Neiva, Rivera and Campoalegre; west: Neiva and Santa María.
Its territorial extension is 917 km², its height is 690 meters above sea level and its average temperature is 27ºC. It has a population of 34,987 inhabitants
RIVERA
Limits: North: municipality of Neiva; South: the municipality of Campoalegre; East: the department of Meta and the municipality of Algeciras; West: the municipality of Palermo.
Its territorial extension is 404 km², its height is 700 meters above sea level and its average temperature is 25ºC. It has a population of 19,566 inhabitants
It is known as the Green Municipality of Colombia. It was founded in 1888 in the communal sector "Aguas Calientes" with the name of San Mateo, at the initiative of Vicente Poveda, who built the first houses with the help of neighbors. It previously belonged to the Poveda Poveda family from Italy who sold their farm to the Rivera family. The town was a district of the city of Neiva until May 17, 1943, when it was segregated from the territories of the capital to be erected a municipality. It was renamed "Rivera" in memory of José Eustasio Rivera, a writer born there in 1888.
economy: it is based on agriculture: the production of flowers stands out: orchids and lilies and the poultry activity is especially important in Riverita, Ulloa, Guadual and the urban area
places: manoa country hotel; viewpoint of the wine; the divine recreation farm; the rivera hot springs
SANTA MARIA
Limits: North: municipality of Planadas; South: municipality of Palermo; East: municipality of Palermo; West: the municipalities of Planadas and Iquiras
Its territorial extension is 378 km², its height is 1320 meters above sea level and its average temperature is 20ºC. It has a population of 11,744 inhabitants
Paeces: It is well known and recorded in different chronicles dating from the period of the conquest, this town was scattered in the lower part of the Central mountain range on the left bank of the Magdalena River. From the name of the river, it can be deduced that the tribe that inhabited this region was the BACHE, which in the Quechua language means Arroyo de Tierra.
There are two situations that allow us to locate almost precisely the presence of these aborigines in the lands of Santa María. Pijaos: A fierce and warrior people that lived in the mountain range from Ibagué to the Nevado del Huila
The hamlet of Santa María as such, arises from the expansion process of the agricultural frontier, initially as already mentioned with the illegal crops for the time, of tobacco and anise and later with the crops of bread such as banana, yucca and the exploitation of cattle. Among the most outstanding actions of the corregidores were those of addressing complaints between neighbors, boundary problems and leading community development activities such as improving roads and streets of the nascent town, for which he had the collaboration of the Commissioner who he used a bolillo, as the only support to fulfill his function. Also at the time of the violence, the Corregidor was in charge of organizing the defense of the town and carrying out the corresponding removals of bodies. By the time the Santa María Police Inspectorate was created, there was already a population of more than two thousand inhabitants and the community is in the process of consolidating the community organization through the Community Action Boards.
economy: it is based on the agricultural sector, highlighting the production of coffee, beans and fruit trees (especially avocado). In addition, the mining extraction and commercialization of limestone, gravel, sand and the manufacture of bricks and derivatives
places: High viewpoint on one side of the town, Puente de Arcos, the ecclesial tower
TELLO
Its territorial extension is 589 km², its altitude is 575 meters above sea level and its climate is warm with an average temperature of 26ºC. It has a population of 14,536 inhabitants
limits: North: municipalities of Baraya and Villavieja; Oriente: With the Department of Meta; South: municipality of Neiva; West: municipalities of Neiva and Aipe
Within its history, the period of political bipartisanship between liberals and conservatives in 1848 stands out with monumental forgotten events such as the burning of the San Andrés Town Center in 1950, and the hundreds of homicides in the still existing place El Puente De Los Decapitales la which in its time was just a cobbled pan that crossed a ravine that was on the way to reach the city of Neiva, Huila where more than 500 inhabitants were shot, beheaded, beheaded and hanged, most of them men who could be of voting age or to fight, to avoid their incorporation into the growing Colombian Guerrillas of the time, the bodies were dismembered at the hands of the Goths, and the parts were placed in a row embedded in the sand on the side of the road to remind the Liberals of the power that the party had conservator in the Municipality of Tello at that time; Other memories of the crumbling history of one of Huila's red squares in 1950 is compiled in the literary work La Carnicería written in 2010.
economy: it is based on agricultural production and livestock activity. Fruits such as grapes, which register the highest levels of quality, bananas from which 91% of the total is produced in the department, complement its economy, which is considered the basis of the development of the region. It is known as "El Viñedo del Huila".
Places: Los Anones, Rio Villa Vieja, Hacienda La Aurora, Fumaroles, Cerro Cucara, Quebrada El Aceite, Hacienda Santa Rita
TERUEL
Its territorial extension is 589 km², its height is 853 meters above sea level and its average temperature is 23ºC. It has a population of 8,838 inhabitants
Teruel has developed in the indigenous settlement of Los Paeces, located in the foothills of the Central mountain range, on the left bank of the Magdalena River. It was founded by the Franciscans Bernardo de Lora and Juan Troyano, in January 1656, under the name of El Retiro. In 1736, the Almorzadero Chaplaincy was founded, administered by José Francisco Sotelo de Tovar y Trujillo, but in 1807 it was burned; A second chapel was built in 1827. This, like the first, was damaged by a telluric movement and was later repaired.
By 1877, the town of El Retiro appears as a departmental village of Huila. In 1937, by ordinance No. 35 of the Huila Assembly, the name of El Retiro was changed to Teruel.
economy: One of the main economic sources and the most important crop at the municipal level is coffee. It is known as "Capital Cafetera del Huila".
places: the Chorro Alto waterfall, diversity of natural pools such as Las Moyas, the Reservoir, El charco del tigre, the dam, El Badillo and the Tune and Pedernal river
limits: North: municipalities of Santa Maria and Palermo; South: municipality of Yaguara; East: municipality of Yaguara; West: municipality of Iquira
VILLAVIEJA
Its territorial extension is 578 km², its height is 430 meters above sea level and its average temperature is 28-31ºC. It has a population of 7,309 inhabitants
As a result of the search for El Dorado, the Spaniards come to this valley and suffer the inclemencies of the environment, for which they call it "The Valley of Tristezas". Captain Juan Alonso, founded for the second time the capital of the Department of Huila, on the site that Villavieja occupies today. The town was established on August 18, 1550. On November 14, 1569, it was destroyed by the natives. In 1612, Diego de Ospina y Medinilla moved what was called the Villa of San Juan de Neiva, and it became the new foundation that called this site "Villavieja". The Jesuit fathers, acquire large lands and in one of them the chapel of "Santa Bárbara" is built
places: Santa Bárbara Chapel, Villavieja Paleontological Museum, Villavieja Municipal Astronomical Observatory (OATA), Totumo House, Tatacoa Desert,
economy: it is based on agricultural activity, predominantly the agricultural sector and ecotourism, as a contemplative, investigative and scientific tourist modality, which takes into account the nature of the places visited and their landscape, ethnological and anthropological quality
limits: North: department of Tolima; South: municipalities of Baraya and Tello; East: Baraya municipality and Tolima department; West: municipality of Aipe
YAGUARA
Its territorial extension is 329 km², its height is 560 meters above sea level and its average temperature is 25 ºC. It has a population of 9,410 inhabitants
Limits: north: the municipalities of Teruel and Palermo; south: municipalities of Gigante, Hobo and Tesalia; East: municipalities of Campoalegre and Hobo; West: municipalities Tesalia and Iquira.
Captain Francisco Gómez Quintero founded Yaguará in this territory, with the commitment that they would populate it in less than a year and that they would pay six pesos of eight reals for the church of Neiva, which did not happen since the man died before that he could fulfill it, his children gave these lands to third parties. Manuel Quintero Príncipe, owner of a large part of this territory, donates through his will in 1752 part of his lands for the creation of the Capellanía del Cucharo, in 1772 there were already 19 residents living in the area and they requested the viceroy Manuel de Guirior to creation of the parish of Santa Ana de Yaguará,
economy: Agriculture being the cultivation of rice the most important of all. Livestock and fish farming. The oil industry. The Betania Hydroelectric Plant (CHB).
which is approved on September 16, 1773, which has been taken since then as the foundation date of the municipality. This first population will be concentrated around what is currently the Plaza de Santa Bárbara, in 1811 the parish priest Diego Quintero Tobar, grandson of Manuel Quintero Príncipe, donated a room so that the parish was elevated to the category of Villa de la Gloriosa Santa Ana , creating a new route and temple, around what is now the Ángel María Paredes park.
Places: Ángel María Paredes Park, Central Park of the Municipality of Yaguará, Santa Bárbara Park, El Tomo Spa, El Charco del Bejuco, Cueva Rica, La Cueva del Amor, La Cueva del Tigre
