History of Roncesvalles

farmers and settlers from Chaparral, Rovira, San Antonio, Old Caldas, Boyaca, including Don Anacleto Londoño, Gregory Betancourt, Bernardino Galvis, Jesús María Galvis, Jesus Valencia Gil, José María Naranjo, emerald Ocampo, Francisco Eladio Marín, Francisco Naranjo Echeverry and Aureliano, the first of July 1925 decided to name what today is Roncesvalles; perhaps its name comes from a place of alpine mountains for its climate and topography resembled the European Roncesvalles.

The May 11, 1944 the Departmental Assembly Del Tolima by Ordinance No. 4 stands to the municipality. Under these conditions Tolima Governor appoints Dr. Alejandro Bernate as Lord Mayor of the town to Don Jose Ignacio Guzman, an illustrious son of the municipality of Chaparral. The dynamics of the municipality on, like other municipalities of Colombia, with the history of the land began to focus on a few people: The Azcona, Ramirez Diaz, Parras, Gallo, who devoted themselves to extensive livestock farms where little labor is concerned and agriculture is in the hands of smallholders. The town of Roncesvalles always been considered rich, the truth is that it is held by a wealthy few who contribute little or nothing to it.



In 1979 the first steps of the Agrarian Reform INCORA buy some land, through community enterprises sponsored and hosted by the Incora and so the town starts to grow poblacionalmente are started. His first popular mayor was Don Antonio Rivas Rodriguez, who paved the way towards administrative decentralization by constitutional mandate, it also succeeded in linking the town to the National Rehabilitation Plan, opening spaces to citizen participation in municipal councils Rehabilitation , strengthening citizen oversight and obtaining resources for infrastructure. A Juan Antonio Rivas is known as an excellent performer and imposed on the community and its people models of