History of San Sebastian de Buenavista

For nearly three decades, in an area of ​​San Sebastian, on a farm called makes "Paradise" found native representative findings of those times as clay pots, bones and indigenous figures who takes us back to those times and a little glimpse of what was Chimilas tribe who lived in San Sebastian de Buenavista. San Sebastian de Buenavista town was first through Ordinance No. 05 issued by the Departmental Assembly in 1936, from the county seat of San Zeno San Sebastian de Buenavista, leaving the town with this last name, but then in 1950, due to widespread outbreaks of violence around the country, San Zeno resumed their designation as county seat.

Being governor Department Lt. Colonel Luis Vargas F. Millán and by Decree 687 of 13 December 1957 the final creation of the Municipality of San Sebastian de Buenavista is achieved, segregating the new district of the territory of San Zeno, a condition which now holds San Sebastian de Buenavista day, being an important agricultural center in the region, with crops such as orange, maize, cassava, beans, sesame, mango and others, as well as the exploitation of eucalyptus wood used for poles and others in the barranquilleras industries