History of Marinilla

Many decades passed until in 1709 began to form at the location of the current population of a small dependent village surrounding town of Remedios . Shortly after this new village, which initially was called San José de la Marinilla, developed by government regulation in a viceparroquia belonging to the parish of Rio Negro . According to available data, the founders of Marinilla were Juan Duque de Estrada , from Mariquita, and Manzueto Francisco Giraldo , from Santiago de Arma . On 31 January 1752 , the viceparroquia Marinilla rose to the status of parish, by permission of the Bishop of Popayan, and by decree of the Viceroy José Alfonso Pizarro . I isolated in the middle of the jungle, Marinilla, like most of the cities of Antioch at this time, had a life without major historical events during the colonial days.

When the struggle for Independence of Colombia reached Marinilla, the town noted for being one of the first people to offer troops for liberating crusade. When General José María Córdova Marinilla reached for the first time, found a battalion formed immediately went with him to the battles in the war of independence. The willingness of the people to be soldiers that they fight alongside the liberation campaign of Simón Bolívar , in particular, to José María Córdova campaign, led to the village was known as the Colombian Sparta