History of Caramanta

the town was conducted by Don Gabriel Echeverri and Don Juan Santamaría on 2 May 1825 . A larger group of citizens paisas residents Medellín asked the then Governor Don Francisco Urdaneta sale of these lands to other people. In addition to Don Gabriel and Don Juan Santamaría Echeverri, among other buyers included Alejo Santamaría, Juan Uribe Mondragón, Isidoro Barrientos, Jose Maria Campuzano, Félix Mejía, Carlos Escobar, Evaristo Pinillos, José Antonio Mejía Sierra, Juan Pablo Sanudo, Luis Latorre and Braulio Mejia.

These buyers got in 1835 titling their names to 160,496 bushels Colombian currency rate of weight by then fanegada. Bonuses were paid to the War of Independence and these owners immediately began to colonize his possessions.

Initially, the new population was administratively under the parochial district of Fredonia . Not long after, the village had increased its population, and the founder Gabriel Echeverri was governor of Antioquia . The governor asked the caramanteños rise to the category of village district, Don Gabriel granted on 8 February 1842 . As a result of these events that date is then considered as the amount of the official founding of Caramanta, and its founders Gabriel and Juan Santamaría Echeverri.

Currently, Caramanta remains a beautiful town where it seems that time has stopped. Its architecture, perfectly preserved, talks about the years of colonization of Antioquia . Sometime ago, the road that connected Antioquia with the coffee belt passed by him but fortunately perhaps the town was spared this traffic.

Are spectacular waterfalls and the beauty of its roads . It is the people of the poncho , the cold earth of the old drover and remember to visit the west .