The municipality bears the name of Salazar in honor of the oidor Alonso Pérez de Salazar [es], in addition to the fact that "Las Palmas" refers to the fact that when the town was established it was characterized by a large vegetation of palm trees.[1]
The construction of the parish church of San Pablo began in 1889, it was blessed by the bishop of the Diocese of Nueva Pamplona, Evaristo Blanco in 1915.[4] It is estimated that the cost of the construction of the church was two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.[4] As of 1953, the municipal seat had two churches, the parish of San Pablo with a modern style architecture and the old chapel of Belén, made of adobe and tapia materials.[5] The Belén chapel suffered damage to one of its towers after the earthquake of 1875.[5] The chapel has an retable of Nuestra Señora de Belén, which is believed to have been found by a woman named Lucía in one of the stones of the Trinidad Creek in the 1600s.[6]
The Santurban Regional Natural Park in Salazar de las Palmas [es] comprises approximately 19,088 hectares delimited by CORPONOR.[7] The municipality also has several lagoons such as Los Bueyes, Peroneo and Triaca. Salazar has the northern lagoon complex of Cáchira (Spanish: Complejo Lagunar Norte Cáchira), which also includes parts of the Arboledas and Cáchira municipalities.[8] The Regional Natural Park, abbreviated as PNR, was declared by agreement number 020 of 2013 and it is located in the northern lagoon complex.[9]
Climate data for Salazar de las Palmas (Francisco Romero), elevation 1,000 m (3,300 ft), (1981–2010)
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Month
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Jan
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Feb
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Mar
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Apr
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May
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Jun
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Jul
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Aug
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Sep
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Oct
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Nov
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Dec
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Year
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Mean daily maximum °C (°F)
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26.3 (79.3)
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26.5 (79.7)
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26.7 (80.1)
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27.4 (81.3)
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28.3 (82.9)
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28.2 (82.8)
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28.5 (83.3)
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29.3 (84.7)
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29.2 (84.6)
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28.1 (82.6)
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27.1 (80.8)
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26.3 (79.3)
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27.7 (81.9)
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Daily mean °C (°F)
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21.7 (71.1)
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22.0 (71.6)
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22.4 (72.3)
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22.9 (73.2)
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23.3 (73.9)
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23.1 (73.6)
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23.1 (73.6)
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23.5 (74.3)
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23.5 (74.3)
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23.0 (73.4)
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22.5 (72.5)
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21.9 (71.4)
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22.7 (72.9)
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Mean daily minimum °C (°F)
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17.8 (64.0)
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18.0 (64.4)
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18.6 (65.5)
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19.3 (66.7)
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19.1 (66.4)
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18.6 (65.5)
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18.2 (64.8)
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18.5 (65.3)
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18.5 (65.3)
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18.4 (65.1)
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18.3 (64.9)
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17.8 (64.0)
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18.5 (65.3)
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Average precipitation mm (inches)
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127.9 (5.04)
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123.4 (4.86)
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158.9 (6.26)
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288.9 (11.37)
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257.6 (10.14)
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76.5 (3.01)
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88.2 (3.47)
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144.0 (5.67)
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280.7 (11.05)
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444.4 (17.50)
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418.6 (16.48)
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239.4 (9.43)
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2,648.4 (104.27)
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Average precipitation days
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13
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12
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14
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18
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16
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13
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13
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14
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17
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21
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20
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17
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187
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Average relative humidity (%)
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82
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81
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83
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82
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79
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77
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75
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74
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75
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79
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83
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83
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79
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Mean monthly sunshine hours
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148.8
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115.7
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102.3
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96.0
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130.2
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147.0
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164.3
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182.9
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165.0
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155.0
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138.0
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139.5
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1,684.7
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Mean daily sunshine hours
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4.8
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4.1
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3.3
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3.2
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4.2
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4.9
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5.3
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5.9
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5.5
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5.0
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4.6
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4.5
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4.6
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Source: Instituto de Hidrologia Meteorologia y Estudios Ambientales[10]
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- ^ Mohalem, José de Jesús Acosta (2000). Historia de la Iglesia en Pamplona, siglos XVI, XVII y XVIII (in Spanish). Arquidiocesis de Nueva Pamplona.
- ^ Verea, Francisco Pérez de Salazar (1998). Semblanzas e historia de una familia en la Puebla de los Angeles (in Spanish). F.P. de Salazar Verea. ISBN 978-970-92073-0-9.
- ^ Grafenstein, Johanna von (2006). El Golfo-Caribe y sus puertos: 1600-1850 (in Spanish). Instituto Mora. ISBN 978-970-684-134-6.
- ^ a b Silva, Ramón Cárdenas (1983). Génesis de Salazar de las Palmas, 1583-1983 (in Spanish). Tipograf. Unión. p. 116.
- ^ a b Ramírez, Jesús Emilio (1953). El terremoto de Arboledas, Cucutilla y Salazar de Las Palmas, 8 de julio, 1950 (in Spanish). Instituto Geofísico de los Andes Colombianos. p. 39.
- ^ Villamizar, Néstor Cuadros (1999). Luis Elberto Uribe Bueno: su tierra, vida y obra, memorias (in Spanish). Alcaldía de Salazar de las Palmas. p. 59. ISBN 978-958-33-1041-6.
- ^ "Corponor declara 19.088 hectáreas como Parque Natural Regional Santurbán- Salazar de las Palmas". CORPONOR. Retrieved 2022-08-28.
- ^ "Estudio del estado actual y plan de manejo del Páramo de Santurbán en el departamento de Norte de Santander" (PDF). CORPONOR. 2009. Retrieved 2022-08-28.
- ^ "Estaticos". CORPONOR. 2015-11-19. Retrieved 2022-08-28.
- ^ "Promedios Climatológicos 1981–2010" (in Spanish). Instituto de Hidrologia Meteorologia y Estudios Ambientales. Archived from the original on 15 August 2016. Retrieved 17 June 2024.