History of Chaparral

egra regardless of Santiago de la Frontera on the facts of Cacique Checkbook search of a safer place south where taketh, Fort del Escorial, recently abandoned by Captain Talaverano, calling: strong "Medina of Towers "near the present town of Chaparral in Tolima , the eve of the Epiphany of the year 1584 with reinforcements sent from Santa fe de Bogotá by the President of the Real Audiencia Doctor Francisco Guillén Chaparro.

On June 3, 1773 the Archbishop of Santa Fe Fray Agustin Camacho decreed it erected the Parish of San Juan Bautista de Chaparral in the jurisdiction of the Villa Purification and on 23 July of the same year, the Viceroy Don Manuel de Guirior confirmed available to the Archbishop; that date may be the most suitable to be accepted as the foundation of Chaparral. Towards the second half of the eighteenth century Gaspar Soria Father, wealthy and DD, undertook the task of building a chapel house at a point in the region known until then as the Bureau of Chaparral de los Reyes, because It was a barren area of ​​red soil in which a bush called Chaparro abounded. The stands at the place called El Triunfo, six kilometers from the current municipal and gradually people are building their homes around this site, which led to the foundation of a thriving village. "Shortly after this chapel house Chaparral became Viceparroquia Coyaima, until the year 1767 when it was incorporated as a parish, its first Pastor Don Vicente de la Rocha.

The November 16, 1827 Chaparral was destroyed by an earthquake, then the Lord Francisco Javier de Castro, a wealthy man in the region, granted by deed donation, November 13, 1828, land for which will be built what is now the population. In scriptural