History of Agustin Codazzi

Felix de Arias had been sent by the Governor of Santa Marta to appease the indigenous Coyaimas-Chimilas and establish good relations with these after the initial conquest attempts.

The area became part of the municipality of Los Robles La Paz until 1935 when it was proclaimed a municipality and segregated after the lobbying of a priest named Leandro Maria de Algezàres. The territory was later restructured and Codazzi downgraded to corregimiento.

In 1958 was proclaimed a municipality once again due to its rapid population increase in the 1950s and 1960s triggered by an agricultural boom of cotton that attracted people searching for jobs from many departments of Colombia; mainly from Tolima, Huila, Santander, North Santander, Antioquia, Cundinamarca, Bolivar and Magdalena