Salazar de las Palmas | |
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Clockwise from top: San Pablo Parish, Virgen de Belén Chapel, Salazar River, Víctor Guerrero Monument and Cinera Park | |
![]() Location of the municipality and town of Salazar de las Palmas in the Norte de Santander Department of Colombia. | |
Country | ![]() |
Department | Norte de Santander Department |
Area | |
• Municipality of Colombia | 34 km2 (13 sq mi) |
Elevation | 845 m (2,772 ft) |
Population (2015) | |
• Municipality of Colombia | 8,964 |
• Density | 260/km2 (680/sq mi) |
• Urban | 3,747 |
Time zone | UTC-5 (Colombia Standard Time) |
Salazar de las Palmas (Spanish pronunciation: [salaˈsaɾ ðe las ˈpalmas]) is a Colombian municipality and town located in the department of North of Santander.
The municipality bears the name of Salazar in honor of the oidor Alonso Pérez de Salazar , in addition to the fact that "Las Palmas" refers to the fact that when the town was established it was characterized by a large vegetation of palm trees. [1]
In 1583, Captain Alonso Esteban Rangel founded Salazar de las Palmas. [2] The village was established to facilitate access to the Madgalena River in the New Kingdom of Granada, in addition to creating a new frontier with the Motilones natives. [3]
The construction of the parish church of San Pablo began in 1889, it was blessed by the bishop of the Diocese of Nueva Pamplona, Evaristo Blanco in 1915. [4] It is estimated that the cost of the construction of the church was two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. [4] As of 1953, the municipal seat had two churches, the parish of San Pablo with a modern style architecture and the old chapel of Belén, made of adobe and tapia materials. [5] The Belén chapel suffered damage to one of its towers after the earthquake of 1875. [5] The chapel has an retable of Nuestra Señora de Belén, which is believed to have been found by a woman named Lucía in one of the stones of the Trinidad Creek in the 1600s. [6]
The Santurban Regional Natural Park in Salazar de las Palmas comprises approximately 19,088 hectares delimited by CORPONOR. [7] The municipality also has several lagoons such as Los Bueyes, Peroneo and Triaca. Salazar has the northern lagoon complex of Cáchira (Spanish: Complejo Lagunar Norte Cáchira), which also includes parts of the Arboledas and Cáchira municipalities. [8] The Regional Natural Park, abbreviated as PNR, was declared by agreement number 020 of 2013 and it is located in the northern lagoon complex. [9]
Climate data for Salazar de las Palmas (Francisco Romero), elevation 1,000 m (3,300 ft), (1981–2010) | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 26.3 (79.3) |
26.5 (79.7) |
26.7 (80.1) |
27.4 (81.3) |
28.3 (82.9) |
28.2 (82.8) |
28.5 (83.3) |
29.3 (84.7) |
29.2 (84.6) |
28.1 (82.6) |
27.1 (80.8) |
26.3 (79.3) |
27.7 (81.9) |
Daily mean °C (°F) | 21.7 (71.1) |
22.0 (71.6) |
22.4 (72.3) |
22.9 (73.2) |
23.3 (73.9) |
23.1 (73.6) |
23.1 (73.6) |
23.5 (74.3) |
23.5 (74.3) |
23.0 (73.4) |
22.5 (72.5) |
21.9 (71.4) |
22.7 (72.9) |
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 17.8 (64.0) |
18.0 (64.4) |
18.6 (65.5) |
19.3 (66.7) |
19.1 (66.4) |
18.6 (65.5) |
18.2 (64.8) |
18.5 (65.3) |
18.5 (65.3) |
18.4 (65.1) |
18.3 (64.9) |
17.8 (64.0) |
18.5 (65.3) |
Average precipitation mm (inches) | 127.9 (5.04) |
123.4 (4.86) |
158.9 (6.26) |
288.9 (11.37) |
257.6 (10.14) |
76.5 (3.01) |
88.2 (3.47) |
144.0 (5.67) |
280.7 (11.05) |
444.4 (17.50) |
418.6 (16.48) |
239.4 (9.43) |
2,648.4 (104.27) |
Average precipitation days | 13 | 12 | 14 | 18 | 16 | 13 | 13 | 14 | 17 | 21 | 20 | 17 | 187 |
Average relative humidity (%) | 82 | 81 | 83 | 82 | 79 | 77 | 75 | 74 | 75 | 79 | 83 | 83 | 79 |
Mean monthly sunshine hours | 148.8 | 115.7 | 102.3 | 96.0 | 130.2 | 147.0 | 164.3 | 182.9 | 165.0 | 155.0 | 138.0 | 139.5 | 1,684.7 |
Mean daily sunshine hours | 4.8 | 4.1 | 3.3 | 3.2 | 4.2 | 4.9 | 5.3 | 5.9 | 5.5 | 5.0 | 4.6 | 4.5 | 4.6 |
Source: Instituto de Hidrologia Meteorologia y Estudios Ambientales [10] |
7°46′25″N 72°48′44″W / 7.77361°N 72.81222°W