opulation.
Although the territorial division was made up of a part of then in the law of
25 June 1824 and subsequently in the executive order of May 19, 1825, issued by
the Vice President of the Great Colombia, Francisco de Paula Santander,
department of Cundinamarca, which was annexed the province of Neiva, no mention
of Pitalito was made, and in that year was parochial district, as evidenced by
the documents that were in his city hall and the official communications of the
time, without being aware providence in the erection decree. The vice Pitalito
parish belonged until 1819 to the government of St. Augustine and from this
year to 1824, to the town of Timana.
Although not aware of providence in the creation of the parish of Pitalito be
decreed, it is certain that in the year 1824, and had all the administrative
train civil, and heals itself in ecclesiastical, being dependent for the first
of the town of Timana, capital, since that year the Canton of its name, the
following year he was transferred to Garzón, and ecclesiastical, depended on
the Diocese of Popayán. In 1826, he was appointed again to the care of souls in
the parish of San Antonio de Pitalito the priest Don Jerónimo Spain, who lasted
in the performance of his parish until 1835, this venerable priest was not
content only with the cure of souls, comprising not only in the spiritual
advancement should use the influence of his sacred mission, but also should improve
the environment and living conditions in most of his parishioners; deployed all
the effort of his apostolic zeal for the material progress of the emerging
population coming to crown his work in the term of nine years. In his honor a
Municipal Pitalito College bears his name.
We have already seen that in 1823, succeeded in establishing, after a long
struggle, the public market on Sunday, and thanks to its progressive spirit
nascent population had already
