Saladobanco owes its name to the exitencia
of salt springs located in the village of "Las Pitas". was one of the
first places visited by Sebastian Huila Belalcárzar. Their territories belonged
important without foundation, according documents notary in 1834 and was the
site of Saladoblanco, on the grounds that the Government awarded haboa Colonel
Ignacio Rodriguez, compañerp of Nariño in the campaign of Pasto. As a reward
for his services to independence.
The colonel said lands sold in 1844 to Dr.
Jose Juaquin Gerardino priest whom the priest
