35-647: Tolima may refer to: Tolima Department of Colombia Nevado del Tolima , a volcano in Colombia Deportes Tolima , a Colombian football (soccer) team in the First Division Tolima State , Colombia, which existed from 1861 to 1869 Tolima or Panche , an indigenous group in Colombia Old Armenian name for Tolma Tolima (moth) , a genus of moths in
70-486: A day to Bogotá and Medellín. Ibagué features a tropical rainforest climate under the Köppen climate classification , albeit a relatively cooler version of the climate due to the high altitude. Although the city does experience noticeably drier conditions during and around the months of January and July, the city has no true dry season month, as all twelve months see on average more than 60 mm (2.4 in) of rain. As
105-799: A population of 529,625 in the municipality. It was founded on 14 October 1550, by the Spanish captain Andrés López de Galarza. The city of Ibagué is divided into 13 communes and the rural area has 17 corregimientos . As the capital of the department of Tolima the city hosts the Government of Tolima , the Departmental Assembly, and the Attorney General's Office. It is the main epicenter of political, economic, administrative , business, art, culture, and tourism activities in
140-1866: A type of cheese wrapped in a plantain leaf. Drinks include the Avena , a cold oatmeal-based drink. Tolima gave to the country ten presidents: Domingo Caycedo , José María Melo , Manuel Murillo Toro , José María Rojas Garrido , Miguel Abadía Méndez , Alfonso López Michelsen , Darío Echandía , Carlos Lozano y Lozano , Gabriel París , and Deogracias Fonseca . The Department of Tolima groups its municipalities into six zones: northern, eastern, southern, center, southeastern and snowy. [REDACTED] Amazonas [REDACTED] Antioquia [REDACTED] Arauca [REDACTED] Atlántico [REDACTED] Bolívar [REDACTED] Boyacá [REDACTED] Caldas [REDACTED] Caquetá [REDACTED] Casanare [REDACTED] Cauca [REDACTED] Cesar [REDACTED] Chocó [REDACTED] Córdoba [REDACTED] Cundinamarca [REDACTED] Guainía [REDACTED] Guaviare [REDACTED] Huila [REDACTED] La Guajira [REDACTED] Magdalena [REDACTED] Meta [REDACTED] Nariño [REDACTED] N. Santander [REDACTED] Putumayo [REDACTED] Quindío [REDACTED] Risaralda [REDACTED] San Andrés [REDACTED] Santander [REDACTED] Sucre [REDACTED] Tolima [REDACTED] Valle del Cauca [REDACTED] Vaupés [REDACTED] Vichada Capital district: [REDACTED] Bogotá Ibagu%C3%A9 Ibagué ( Spanish pronunciation: [iβaˈɣe] ) (referred to as San Bonifacio de Ibagué del Valle de las Lanzas during
175-528: Is also an important tourist attraction. The Saldaña river is central to farming in the area; it has en area of influence of 9,800 square kilometers; equal to 41.5% of the departamental area, the longest reach in Tolima, and has the best flow to its irrigation district. It feeds into the crops in the cities of Saldaña and Purificación, as well as its tributaries; the Cucuana, Luisa, and Amoya rivers. The economy of
210-607: Is also widely recognised for its distinctive cuisine. Famous regional dishes include the Tamal Tolimense , a rice- and yellow pea-based dish with pork, egg, chicken, beef and vegetable filling, wrapped inside a plantain leaf; the Lechona , a yellow pea-and-meat-stuffed pork; Empanadas , small potato, rice and meat stuffed pastries, made with corn dough; Achiras (although not exclusively from this department) and Bizcocho calentano , smaller flour pastries; and Quesillo ,
245-455: Is commonplace in areas with this climate, temperatures are relatively consistent throughout the course of the year in Ibagué, with average high temperatures of about 28 °C or 82.4 °F and average low temperatures of about 18 °C or 64.4 °F. On average Ibagué sees 1,700 mm (66.9 in) of rain annually. The Colombian Football Association announced that Ibagué will be one of
280-473: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Tolima Department Tolima ( Spanish pronunciation: [toˈlima] ) is one of the 32 departments of Colombia , located in the Andean region, in the center-west of the country. It is bordered on the north and the west by the department of Caldas ; on the east by the department of Cundinamarca ; on
315-789: Is famous for the Fiestas of San Pedro in Espinal , San Juan in Natagaima and in Ibagué, the Colombian Folkloric Festival and the "Concurso de Duetos Garzón y Collazos." Tolima has produced many writers: Arturo Camacho Ramíez, Juan Lozano y Lozano, Diego Fallon, William Ospina, James Cañón , Martín Pomala, Luz Stella; painters: Darío Jiménez, Jorge Elías Triana, Darío Ortiz Robledo, Carlos Granada, Julio Fajardo; historians Eduardo Santa, Gonzalo Sanchez, Hermes Tovar Pinzón, Hernán Clavijo, Darío Ortiz Vidales. The department
350-687: The Bogotá savanna . Later conquests were executed by captain Andrés Lopez de Galarza , who founded the city of Ibagué and established the municipality of Cajamarca in the west of the department. These two cities would become an important part of the Eje Cafetero ("Coffee Axis"). In 1985 the Armero tragedy occurred in the department. It caused the eruption of the Nevado del Ruiz volcano, destroying
385-860: The Cordillera Oriental , which contains the source of the Cabrera river. These two mountain ranges are separated by the Magdalena Valley, and join back together further south, where the river's head is located. The greater part of the department of Tolima sits on the Continental Lithospheric Mesoproterozoic Grenville Province, which consists of the Cordillera Central, the Cordillera Oriental, and
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#1732781184851420-529: The Nevado del Tolima , and hotter zones in wide valleys lower than 400 meters above sea level that reach temperatures hotter than 40 degrees Celsius. The Tolima department includes three distinct regions: a mountainous region, occupied by the Cordillera Central ; a plain, that corresponds to the valleys of the rivers Magdalena and Saldaña; and the region to the southeast which forms the western slope of
455-652: The Spanish period) is the capital of Tolima , one of the 32 departments that make up the Republic of Colombia . The city is located in the center of the country, on the central mountain range of the Colombian Andes, near Nevado del Tolima . It is one of the most populous cities in the country, with a population of 492,554 (according to the 2018 census), making it the eleventh most populous in Colombia, and with
490-636: The University of Tolima , the University of Ibagué , and the Conservatory of Tolima. Ibagué was founded by Andrés López de Galarza on 14 October 1550, as "Villa de San Bonifacio de Ibagué del Valle de las Lanzas" ("Town of Saint Boniface of Ibagué of the Valley of the Spears") in a nearby location where now lies the urban area of the neighboring municipality of Cajamarca about 42 km (26 miles) to
525-518: The GDP. The GDP per inhabitant in Tolima, registered during 2002 a reduction of 0.4% in constant prices. According to the results of the DANE census, the department of Tolima registered between the years of 2001 and 2002 a diminution, to constant prices, of 0.1% in its GDP, falling from Col$ 2.05 trillion in 2001 to Col$ 2.04 trillion in 2002. The result is explained by the fact that traditional sectors within
560-715: The Pijao word for "snowed". The Panche , of the same linguistic family as the Pijao, populated the northern regions of Tolima, close to the Magdalena Valley . Renowned as fierce warriors, the Panche were widely known for fighting the Muisca over the control of emerald mining territories. They fought against a Spanish-Muisca coalition and were first defeated in the Battle of Tocarema on August 20, 1538. Spanish colonization of
595-407: The Tolima is based on agriculture. Industry in Tolima, as has been happening to the whole country, has been declining in its proportion of GDP , while services gain more importance, a phenomenon known as deindustrialization . Within the sector services Tolima excels in commerce, public administration, other services to the community and "reparaciones", which contribute respectively 11.2% and 9.1% of
630-634: The area. Ibagué one of three cities in the country chosen by the World Trade Center Association (WTCA) to build headquarters along with Cali , adding to the one existing in Bogotá . The economy of Ibagué is based primarily on the industrial, tourism, and agricultural sectors, with its textile industry being the third largest in Colombia. According to "Doing Business" from the World Bank in Washington DC, Ibagué tops
665-416: The death of more than 23,000 people and destroyed the town of Armero. The department's capital, Ibagué , is also built near a very large active volcano; the Nevado del Tolima. It stands at 5215 meters (17,110 ft) high, and last erupted in 1943. The Combeima River flows from this mountain and passes by Ibagué, part of which is situated close enough to the river to be put in danger by volcanic flows, should
700-485: The east, Armenia and the Valle del Cauca to the west, and Honda to the north. There is a long distance bus terminal with connections to most big cities in Colombia. There are frequent connections to Bogotá , Cali , Medellín , and several overnight buses to Cartagena , Barranquilla , and seasonal services to Santa Marta . About 10 km (6 mi) east of the city lies Perales Airport which has several flights
735-613: The east. Ibagué lies within the Andean Volcanic Belt . It has two active volcanoes in its immediate vicinity: the Nevado del Tolima , 28 km (17 mi) NW of the city, and the Cerro Machín , 17 km (11 mi) west of the city center but still within the Municipality of Ibagué. The city is one access point to Los Nevados National Park, the other being Manizales . Cerro Machín has been dormant for
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#1732781184851770-406: The economic structure of the department such as the coffee registered a reduction of 22.4%, reducing 2 percentage points to the total variation, and others did not have important growth or presented/displayed diminutions in its added values. So it is the case of the activity branches: transport, commerce and repairs, industry and electricity gas and water, which jointly reduced 1.7 percentage points to
805-509: The last 800 years, but seismological activity has been registered recently causing several earthquakes. The volcano is classified as "III – Changes in behavior of volcanic activity" by Ingeominas, the Colombian Institute for Geology and Mining. A map of menaced areas has been published indicating that in the event of an eruption the city of Ibagué would not be affected despite its proximity to the volcano. The total population of
840-475: The mountain ranges of Santa Marta and la Macarena. Most of the territory is situated over Mesozoic deposits of the Late Triassic period (T3) and Early Jurassic (J1). Volcanic activity is an issue that residents must deal with living in many parts of Tolima, due to its location over various geological faults. In 1985, for example, the Nevado de Ruiz erupted and caused the Armero tragedy , which caused
875-422: The municipality of Ibagué (including urban and rural areas), according to the 2018 census, was 529,635 inhabitants, of which 492,554 resided in the urban area. Municipal transport is managed by several local bus companies that operate minibuses throughout the city and to neighboring villages. Ibagué lies at the intersection of national roads 40 and 43, connecting the city to Magdalena River Valley and Bogotá to
910-624: The ranking of the cities with greater ease of doing business and investment in the country after Manizales . The city is also part of the Colombian coffee growing axis . The city is known as "The Musical Capital of Colombia and America", thanks to the Conservatory of Tolima (one of the most prestigious and important in Colombia), folklore festivities, and its many monuments referring to music. The city's main educational institutions are
945-458: The region began in 1537 with Sebastián de Belalcázar travelling from the south of later Colombia, where he had founded Cali and Popayán in 1537. He set north to finally reach the area where Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada had founded Bogotá on August 6, 1538. On its way, De Belalcázar founded the settlement that would become known as Ibagué . De Belalcázar traveled until he reached the settlement of Flandes in Tolima, before heading east towards
980-422: The south by the department of Huila , and on the west by the departments of Cauca , Valle del Cauca , Quindío and Risaralda . Tolima has a surface area of 23,562 km , and its capital is Ibagué . The department of Tolima was created in 1861 from a part of what was previously Cundinamarca . The Pijao inhabited the southern parts of Tolima during pre-Columbian times. The name of the department comes from
1015-477: The town of Armero. It produced lahars and 23,000 people died in the tragedy. Being situated close to the equator, the department of Tolima does not experience seasons, but it does enjoy a variety of different mountainous temperatures: snowy summits more than 5,000 meters high (home to the Las Hermosas and Nevado del Huila National Natural Parks) with below freezing temperatures like the Nevado del Huila and
1050-546: The tribe Anerastiini Valle Tolima, an area of Caguas, Puerto Rico Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Tolima . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tolima&oldid=1022209447 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
1085-438: The variation, whereas other services, rights and taxes, construction and farming rest, forestry and 3.6 percentage points fish were the branches with greater positive contribution to the variation of the GDP when contributing. Music is the distinguishing cultural expression of Tolima. Its capital, Ibagué, is well known as "the musical city of Colombia", and is home to one of the nation's classic conservatoriums. The department also
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1120-419: The venue cities to host the 2016 FIFA Futsal World Cup , although in the end it was not designated as the venue for the sporting event. Ibague has one professional soccer team Deportes Tolima three times Liga BetPlay winner in 2003, 2018 and 2021. Club Deportes Tolima was founded on 18 December 1954, under the leadership of Manuel Rubio Sánchez, who was in charge of registering the team with Dimayor for
1155-751: The volcano ever erupt again. The territory of Tolima is traversed from the south to north by the Magdalena River, of which the main rivers of the Tolima are tributary. Other rivers are the Saldaña River , the Cabrera, Coello, the Tetuán, the Gualí, the Rio Recio, and the Rio Prado. The Rio Prado dam is found on the river of the same name. This is the largest fresh water lake in central Colombia and
1190-460: The west of Ibagué's current whereabouts. The indigenous Pijaos commanded by cacique Ibagué were not fond of Spaniards colonizing the area so the city was re-founded in its current location on 7 February 1551. From April to December 1854, Ibagué was briefly the capital of the New Granada following a coup d'etat promoted by general José María Melo . In 1908, when the department of Tolima
1225-551: Was created, Ibagué was designated as its capital. The University of Tolima was founded in 1945, and was raised to state university status in 1954. The city is also the home of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ibagué . Ibagué is located in the Colombian Andean region, in the center of the department of Tolima, surrounded by mountains on all sides with the exception of a plateau which extends to
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