Icononzo () is a municipality located in the

Tolima Department 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 ...

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Climate

The average temperature is 21o C

History

In 1875, the community of Guamitos was inherited by Don Vicente Reyes Daza. During the colonial era and by the year 1888, Adrian Lords Escobar, Guillermo Quijano, Alberto Williamson and others arrived and created a small community along the road leading to Guamitos. By Ordinance No. 3 of July 16, 1888, it was instituted as "Corregimiento Icononzo". By 1892, Reyes Daza and Williamson began the assembly of the estates Canada and Scotland. Labor supply in the region was worsened by housing shortages. This situation led the ranch owners to donate land to address the problem, beginning the construction of 17 new homes. This resulted in the formation of a new town, which, because of their increasing wealth and development, was upgraded to a municipality by Ordinance No. 1915 of April 21, after it was returned to the department of Tolima in territories under the jurisdiction of Cundinamarca. Icononzo is known for a

natural bridge A natural arch, natural bridge, or (less commonly) rock arch is a natural landform where an arch has formed with an opening underneath. Natural arches commonly form where inland cliffs, coastal cliffs, fins or stacks are subject to erosion fro ...

over a deep canyon used in the civil turmoil known as

La Violencia ''La Violencia'' (, The Violence) was a ten-year civil war in Colombia from 1948 to 1958, between the Colombian Conservative Party and the Colombian Liberal Party, mainly fought in the countryside. ''La Violencia'' is considered to have begu ...

following the

Bogotazo El Bogotazo (from "Bogotá" and the ''-azo'' suffix of violent augmentation) was a massive outbreak of rioting after the assassination in Bogotá, Colombia of Liberal leader and presidential candidate Jorge Eliécer Gaitán on 9 April 1948 d ...

. The arch was painted by the Italian painter Gerolamo Fumagalli in the 19th century. In 1989, the Atlantis commune, founded in

Burtonport or ( English name: Burtonport) is a fishing village about northwest of Dungloe in The Rosses district of County Donegal, Ireland. The main employers in the village were the Burtonport Fishermen's Co-op and the ''Bord Iascaigh Mhara'' (BIM; I ...

, Ireland, by Jenny James, relocated near to Icononzo.

References

Municipalities of Tolima Department Natural arches Landforms of Colombia {{Tolima-geo-stub