History of Maripi

1776 was established as a parish by decree of the Archbishop of Santa Fe Agustín de Alvarado and Castillo. On 23 November 1784 were elected as village headman (at the time it was said of the rulers of small towns or villages) to Juan de Dios and Caicedo Juan Antonio Pradilla. The population Maripí, was involved in the violence policy in the early 1950s , between the liberal and conservative parties.

In the period between 1960 and 1991, the so-called "War of the Emeralds', which occurred because of the dispute for hegemony in the exploitation of emeralds in the town of Muzo and Coscuez site developed San Pablo de Borbur causing at least 5,000 deaths in the region. The inhabitants of the town of Maripí were involved from the 1980s in this conflict, resulting in numerous deaths.

After the peace agreement in 1991 that ended the war, the town has experienced relative peace, but with latent conflicts between emerald, the emergence of drug trafficking , the paramilitary and the negative influence of so-called 'patterns' of emeralds for the population