Roldanillo was founded by Captain Francisco Redondo Ponce de
León, January 20, 1576, was erected as a municipality in 1875 The landscape of
the Municipality, is formed by a flat area that is part of the Valley
Geographic Cauca River and hillside area, consisting of highs and lows that are
part of the Western Cordillera, on the east slope hills. It has several natural
surface currents among which are distinguished, Cáceres, Roldanillo, The King
and Aguablanca, the first two aqueduct supplying the municipality. With the
colonization of Antioquia and the fact that most of the year the land of flat
area remained flooded, a process of land occupation area slope where the forest
was changed by grasses, insofar began in circumstances demanded that the
natural forest was disappearing and extensive livestock raising. The end result
of this process was the degradation of slope and the disappearance of many
natural causes, to such an extent that the municipality has no current sources
of water to meet their own needs for human consumption. In the early 50s, as a
result of Cauca river overflows and flooding rivers; Cáceres, Roldanillo and
Quintero, flat area remained flooded most of the year and the main land use was
cattle. Thus, the adequacy of approximately 10,000 hectares of land, of the
best quality was achieved to enter the agroindustrial production process, in
the flat area of the municipalities of: Roldanillo - La Union - Toro
