Aipe is a town and municipality in the

Huila Department Huila () is one of the departments of Colombia. It is located in the southwest of the country, and its capital is Neiva. Demography and Ethnography Huila department had a population of 1,122,622 inhabitants in 2020, of which 679,667 (60.54%) ...

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. It is located on the west bank of the

Magdalena River The Magdalena River (, ; less commonly ) is the main river of Colombia, flowing northward about through the western half of the country. It takes its name from the biblical figure Mary Magdalene. It is navigable through much of its lower reaches, ...

in the

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at altitudes between . Aipe borders Natagaima,

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and

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of the

department of Tolima Tolima () 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 the ...

in the north and west, Villavieja and Tello in the east, and the departmental capital

Neiva Neiva () is the capital and most populated city of the Department of Huila, south central Colombia. It is located in the valley of the Magdalena River with a municipal population of 388,299. It is one of the most important cities in southern Co ...

in the south.Official website Aipe
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History

In early 1741, Doña Teresa and Don Enríque Cortés, descendants of Mr. Jacinto Cortés, gave 80 hectares to establish a new town, and are considered the founders of the Aipe. In 1770, the church hierarchy and government in

records the construction of the church of Our Lady of Sorrows. In 1874, Aipe acquired autonomy from Neiva, as a member of the canton district of Villavieja and on 8 April 1912 by Ordinance No. 26, was created as a municipality by the Departmental Assembly.

Geography

The municipality of Aipe is located on the left bank of the Magdalena River. It is located in the northwest of the Department of Huila, in the Magdalena Valley, bounded on the north and west by the

Department of Tolima Tolima () 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 the ...

, to the east the Magdalena River, and south by the capital of Huila;

. The municipality has a total area of 801.04 km2 (3.8% total of the department). The lowest level of the municipality is located at the banks of the

at an altitude of above sea level, with an average annual temperature of . The highest point is above sea level, located in the vereda La Union (west of the municipal boundary with the

), with an average temperature of 13.67 °C.

Paleontology

In the Loma Gorda and

Hondita Formation The Hondita Formation (, Ksh) is a fossiliferous geological formation of the Upper Magdalena Valley (VSM) and surrounding Central and Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes, extending from Cundinamarca in the north to Huila and easternmost To ...

s in Aipe, many

Late Cretaceous The Late Cretaceous (100.5–66 Ma) is the more recent of two epochs into which the Cretaceous Period is divided in the geologic time scale. Rock strata from this epoch form the Upper Cretaceous Series. The Cretaceous is named after ''cre ...

(

Cenomanian The Cenomanian is, in the International Commission on Stratigraphy's (ICS) geological timescale, the oldest or earliest age (geology), age of the Late Cretaceous epoch (geology), Epoch or the lowest stage (stratigraphy), stage of the Upper Cretace ...

Coniacian The Coniacian is an age or stage in the geologic timescale. It is a subdivision of the Late Cretaceous Epoch or Upper Cretaceous Series and spans the time between 89.8 ± 1 Ma and 86.3 ± 0.7 Ma (million years ago). The Coniacian is preceded by ...

) species of

ammonite Ammonoids are extinct, (typically) coiled-shelled cephalopods comprising the subclass Ammonoidea. They are more closely related to living octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish (which comprise the clade Coleoidea) than they are to nautiluses (family N ...

s have been found. The species '' Acanthoceras sp.'', '' Rhynchostreon sp.'', '' Choffaticeras sp.'', ''

Fagesia catinus ''Fagesia'' is a small, subglobular ammonite (suborder Ammonitina) belonging to the vascoceratid family of the Acanthocerataceae that lived during the Turonian stage of the Late Cretaceous, 92–88 Ma ago. The shell of ''Fagesia'' is about 9. ...

'', '' Neoptychites cf. andinus'', '' Mitonia gracilis'', '' Morrowites sp.'', '' Nannovascoceras sp.'', '' Quitmaniceras sp.'', '' Benueites sp.'', '' Mytiloides kossmati'', '' M. goppelnensis'', '' Anomia sp.'', '' Paramammites sp.'', '' Hoplitoides sp.'', '' H. ingens'', '' H. lagiraldae'', '' Codazziceras ospinae'', '' Allocrioceras sp.'', '' Prionocycloceras sp.'', '' P. guayabanum'', '' Reesidites subtuberculatum'', '' Subprionotropis colombianus'', '' Mytiloides scupini'', '' Dydimotis sp.'', '' Gauthiericeras sp.'', '' Anagaudryceras sp.'', '' Eulophoceras jacobi'', '' Paralenticeras sieversi'', '' Hauericeras madagascarensis'', '' Peroniceras subtricarinatum'', '' Forresteria sp.'', '' Barroisiceras onilahyense'' and '' Ankinatsytes venezolanus'' have been registered in Aipe.Patarroyo, 2011, p.499

Climate

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Bibliography

* {{Authority control Municipalities of Huila Department Populated places on the Magdalena River Populated places established in 1741 1741 establishments in the Spanish Empire