About
the increase in mining operations, were formed villages around, including
Rosario Lajas in 1745, hamlet that was very important in the colonial times.
The
Spaniards found years later richest mine, so the population transfer occurs to
form the village of Santana de Lajas. Later the mines were taken
over by the British who exploited them to exterminate them.
Due
to its geographical location between the mountains of northern Tolima passed
through this region famous and important people in the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries as José Celestino Mutis, Tomas Maria Gallego, Humboldt,
Robert Stevenson and Simon Bolivar.
By
National Law No. 44 of 1875, the Nation gave to Santana 100 hectares of land
for its inhabitants and an area to the population and money for those who
wanted to establish there. In August 1885 a fire
destroyed it in its entirety.
By
Ordinance No. 47 of May 2, 1930, the Departmental Assembly changed the name of
Santana by Falan, in memory of Diego Fallon, its most famous son.
History
of Cold, located in the northern part of the department of Tolima, with an
average temperature of 20 degrees Celsius was founded in 1640.
Named
after the English Roberto Frias, head at the time of the holding of nine mines
of gold, silver and nickel. He was later elevated to
township in the year 1888 by Ordinance No. 52 of 11 April, the government of
