History of Saldana

lang="EN-US">In 1934 a major event occurs that would change the history of Catufa: Arrive Girardot, Tolima, Huila railroad. The population becomes definite south and around the railway houses increase, given its growth decided to rename Catufa by the current, taken from the river, called by the Spanish Pérez de Quesada in honor of a soldier drowned in its waters.

In 1950 he completed the work of mega irrigation water reaches the fields and with it the boom; channels irrigating the rice fields that made ​​the most flourishing Saldaña population of Tolima and later rice sovereign municipality.

In 1964 a group of prestantes saldañunos promoted the creation of the town of Saldaña and persevere and after a year-long campaign, in 1969 the assembly of Tolima gives life to new municipality, the ordinance n. 5 signed by its President Don Marco Tulio Padilla Guzman and enacted on 18 November of the same year by Dr. Alberto Lozano Simonelly, governor of the department, its first mayor Héctor Gabriel Rondon, now deceased.