The municipality bears the name of Salazar in honor of the oidorAlonso Pérez de Salazar [es], in addition to the fact that "Las Palmas" refers to the fact that when the town was established it was characterized by a large vegetation of palm trees.[1]
History
In 1583, Captain Alonso Esteban Rangel founded Salazar de las Palmas.[2] The village was established to facilitate access to the Madgalena River in the New Kingdom of Granada, in addition to creating a new frontier with the Motilones natives.[3]
Heritage sites
The construction of the parish church of San Pablo began in 1889, it was blessed by the bishop of the Diocese of Nueva Pamplona, Evaristo Blanco in 1915.[4] It is estimated that the cost of the construction of the church was two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.[4] As of 1953, the municipal seat had two churches, the parish of San Pablo with a modern style architecture and the old chapel of Belén, made of adobe and tapia materials.[5] The Belén chapel suffered damage to one of its towers after the earthquake of 1875.[5] The chapel has an retable of Nuestra Señora de Belén, which is believed to have been found by a woman named Lucía in one of the stones of the Trinidad Creek in the 1600s.[6]
Nature reserves
The Santurban Regional Natural Park in Salazar de las Palmas [es] comprises approximately 19,088 hectares delimited by CORPONOR.[7] The municipality also has several lagoons such as Los Bueyes, Peroneo and Triaca. Salazar has the northern lagoon complex of Cáchira (Spanish: Complejo Lagunar Norte Cáchira), which also includes parts of the Arboledas and Cáchira municipalities.[8] The Regional Natural Park, abbreviated as PNR, was declared by agreement number 020 of 2013 and it is located in the northern lagoon complex.[9]
Climate
Climate data for Salazar de las Palmas (Francisco Romero), elevation 1,000 m (3,300 ft), (1981–2010)
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