History of San Eduardo

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The municipality of San Eduardo was founded in 1914 on land donated by its founders, Bartolomé Rodríguez and Gabriel Vargas with the name Villanueva and located south of the present town. Township township was Berbeo then became departmental inspection and in 1965 was erected according to Township Ordinance No. 013 of 1965, by the intervention of Deputy Juan Donaldo Gámez.la why the town is named after eduardo san is in honor of the first bishop made his first pastoral visit, Eduardo Maldonado Calvo.El process of settlement was formed with residents who came from Garagoa, Chinavita and Tibana, and don red lisandro Ventaquemada as judge

Violence in the 50's and 60

In the 50s the town was asotado violence under attack from the liberal guerrillas, after the death in Bogotá Jorge Eliezer Gaitan (the bogotazo) this murderer to three guerrilla persons.Años later in the decade of the 60's far area peacefully take urban. Today the town has a good progress in the province.