Salazar_de_las_Palmas
Salazar de las Palmas
Municipality of Colombia in Norte de Santander Department
Salazar de las Palmas (Spanish pronunciation: [salaˈsaɾ ðe las ˈpalmas]) is a Colombian municipality and town located in the department of North of Santander.
Salazar de las Palmas | |
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Clockwise from top: San Pablo Parish, Virgen de Belén Chapel, Salazar River, Víctor Guerrero Monument and Cinera Park | |
Location of the municipality and town of Salazar de las Palmas in the Norte de Santander Department of Colombia. | |
| Country |  Colombia |
| Department | Norte de Santander Department |
| Area | |
| • Municipality of Colombia | 34 km2 (13 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 845 m (2,772 ft) |
| Population (2015) | |
| • Municipality of Colombia | 8,964 |
| • Density | 260/km2 (680/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 3,747 |
| Time zone | UTC-5 (Colombia Standard Time) |
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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]
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]
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]
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 data for Salazar de las Palmas 1981–2010 | |||||||||||||
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| 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] | |||||||||||||
- 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.
- Silva, Ramón Cárdenas (1983). Génesis de Salazar de las Palmas, 1583-1983 (in Spanish). Tipograf. Unión. p. 116.
- 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.
- Government of Norte de Santander - Salazar de las Palmas (in Spanish)
- Salazar de las Palmas official website (in Spanish)
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