Salazar de las Palmas

Municipality of Colombia in Norte de Santander Department

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Location of the municipality and town of Salazar de las Palmas in the Norte de Santander Department of Colombia.

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ColombiaDepartmentNorte de Santander DepartmentArea

• Municipality of Colombia34 km² (13 sq mi)Elevation

845 m (2,772 ft)Population

(2015)

• Municipality of Colombia8,964 • Density260/km² (680/sq mi) • Urban

3,747Time zoneUTC-5 (Colombia Standard Time)

Salazar de las Palmas (Spanish pronunciation: [salaˈsaɾ ðe las ˈpalmas]) is a Colombian municipality and town located in the department of North of Santander.

Etymology

The municipality bears the name of Salazar in honor of the oidor Alonso 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 1981–2010
Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year
Mean daily maximum °C (°F)	26.3 (79.3)	26.5 (79.7)	26.7 (80.1)	27.4 (81.3)	28.3 (82.9)	28.2 (82.8)	28.5 (83.3)	29.3 (84.7)	29.2 (84.6)	28.1 (82.6)	27.1 (80.8)	26.3 (79.3)	27.7 (81.8)
Daily mean °C (°F)	21.7 (71.1)	22 (72)	22.4 (72.3)	22.9 (73.2)	23.3 (73.9)	23.1 (73.6)	23.1 (73.6)	23.5 (74.3)	23.5 (74.3)	23 (73)	22.5 (72.5)	21.9 (71.4)	22.7 (72.9)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F)	17.8 (64.0)	18 (64)	18.6 (65.5)	19.3 (66.7)	19.1 (66.4)	18.6 (65.5)	18.2 (64.8)	18.5 (65.3)	18.5 (65.3)	18.4 (65.1)	18.3 (64.9)	17.8 (64.0)	18.5 (65.3)
Average rainfall mm (inches)	127.9 (5.04)	123.4 (4.86)	158.9 (6.26)	288.9 (11.37)	257.6 (10.14)	76.5 (3.01)	88.2 (3.47)	144 (5.7)	280.7 (11.05)	444.4 (17.50)	418.6 (16.48)	239.4 (9.43)	2,648.4 (104.27)
Average rainy days	13	12	14	18	16	13	13	14	17	21	20	17	187
Source: Instituto de Hidrologia Meteorologia y Estudios Ambientales (IDEAM)^[10]

References

^ Mohalem, José de Jesús Acosta (2000). Historia de la Iglesia en Pamplona, siglos XVI, XVII y XVIII (in Spanish). Arquidiocesis de Nueva Pamplona.
^ Verea, Francisco Pérez de Salazar (1998). Semblanzas e historia de una familia en la Puebla de los Angeles (in Spanish). F.P. de Salazar Verea. ISBN 978-970-92073-0-9.
^ Grafenstein, Johanna von (2006). El Golfo-Caribe y sus puertos: 1600-1850 (in Spanish). Instituto Mora. ISBN 978-970-684-134-6.
^ ^a ^b Silva, Ramón Cárdenas (1983). Génesis de Salazar de las Palmas, 1583-1983 (in Spanish). Tipograf. Unión. p. 116.
^ ^a ^b Ramírez, Jesús Emilio (1953). El terremoto de Arboledas, Cucutilla y Salazar de Las Palmas, 8 de julio, 1950 (in Spanish). Instituto Geofísico de los Andes Colombianos. p. 39.
^ Villamizar, Néstor Cuadros (1999). Luis Elberto Uribe Bueno: su tierra, vida y obra, memorias (in Spanish). Alcaldía de Salazar de las Palmas. p. 59. ISBN 978-958-33-1041-6.
^ "Corponor declara 19.088 hectáreas como Parque Natural Regional Santurbán- Salazar de las Palmas". CORPONOR. Retrieved 2022-08-28.
^ "Estudio del estado actual y plan de manejo del Páramo de Santurbán en el departamento de Norte de Santander" (PDF). CORPONOR. 2009. Retrieved 2022-08-28.
^ "Estaticos". CORPONOR. 2015-11-19. Retrieved 2022-08-28.
^ "Promedios Climatológicos 1981–2010" (in Spanish). Instituto de Hidrologia Meteorologia y Estudios Ambientales. Archived from the original on August 15, 2016. Retrieved 2022-08-31.