History of El Pital

Herrera del Campo, as Juan figure first priest Celedonio Lopez and Avilés. In 1709 Don Juan Palomino and Salazar, Spanish neighbor Timaná acquires the Hacienda del Cacique Pitaló Pitayó as payment for being encomendero monistral, farms covering Pital site today. In 1711 the widow of Field and Barbara Salazar calls about Paez Indians Tierradentro and donate them a plot of land located in the north of the gorge of El Pital. In 1718 Doña Bárbara makes the village acquires a parish of Santa Rosa de Lima El Pital.

In 1720 an indigenous Paez found a vellum of the Virgen del Amparo. In 1727 the village contained as pueblo of Santa Rosa de Lima El Pital. In 1780 the borough Pital is erected and its first mayor was Mr. Manuel Trujillo. During the Magna War, contributed its quota Pital lights, life and property: they had their baptismal font here, Captain Antonio Casanova, who served from 1813-1831; Don Gregorio Iriarte Gomez, who disposed of their substantial interests in service of their country, and Don Joaquín Gómez Iriarte, Member of the Convention of Ocaña in 1828.

It was also christened in Pital Dr. José María Rojas Garrido, orator, poet and jurist; on several occasions I took place in the Legislative Chambers; was Minister Plenipotentiary of the Government of Colombia to Venezuela; Secretary of State and President of the Republic. In 1863, Colombia's Constitutional Board Act gives the so-called "dead hand" to expropriate the assets of parishes and Pital lost a considerable sum.

In 1939 the Assembly ordered Huila electric lighting service for Pital. In 1972 he inaugurated the agency's Agrarian Fund, its first director was Don Luis Eduardo Steps. In 1988 he was elected by popular vote Mr. Gilberto Luis Castillo Andrade as the first mayor under that mode.