History of Anserma

ass="apple-converted-space"> In Anserma appears continuous ecclesiastical history since 1717, when the parish priest exercised Esteban de Guevara, who ruled for 21 years, in three discontinuous periods. In 1750, this same coat consecrated the Bishop of Popayán, Cataño Bernardo Ponce de León, the city of Santa Barbara, who remains the principal patron of the city. From 1717 because, to date, there is a spun ecclesiastical history, chronologically ordered, to show the continued existence of the city.

There is a fact that the religious oldest to presume the existence of Anserma as a center of importance: August 3, 1674, the heirs of black gangs Anserma presented to the City Council of this application, "in consideration of entering the summer , and the gang of black gold mines benefit from the mine of La Vega (Supía) not remove or even to sustain, we beseech sue the mining of such a group to take them to the beaches of the Cauca River and has Beyond taking gold until between winter ". It may be the year, and with it the existence of Cabildo Anserma seeking permits or just the presence of black slaves, who paid tribute to Anserma authorities, marking the importance of the city.

Moving Anserma City south to what is now called New Anserma, finished in the year to 1722, the year in which we already established definitively priests in this