Gilberto Vargas Motta's words in 1990 (bicentennial of San Agustin Huila) Romualdo After nine decades back to this region with the same feelings and the same awe that made me say with the poet: "Barefoot your buskin, oh traveler, because you stand is holy ground." On this eminence
Andean cradle of the river of the country, gathered tribes current triple in successive human migration to enshrine in stone their feelings and write with a chisel history of priests and warriors and worship to life in its two dimensions: the mother who gives birth and the sarcophagus which presupposes the eternity. This is the temple where the perennial open stops at the communicative silence of stone.
San Augustine was living sign of human integration, where migration of peoples have forged new towns. Melting pot where the desire for personal independence and growth are the glue, St. Augustine is the son of the sweet hope and strong will of people of faith, strengthened in the struggle for a spiritual ideal where it is mixed with the pragmatic in creative symbiosis.
celebrate the bicentenary of the legal foundation of this town, dignified by centuries of our indigenous parents wish to pay tribute of gratitude to three generations of founders: the primitive who claimed their land under the protection of the Bishop of Popayan and Bustamante Velarde Angel and the mayor of Natural Herazo Dr. Lucas and Mendigaña; the Cauca and Nariño immigrants displaced by the intolerance of the civil wars of the late nineteenth century and the third personified by the creators of the municipality in its scale ecclesiastical, civil and cultural.
Possibly after a swift deer, as in classical legend, the Indian Alejandro Astudülo, accompanied by indigenous
Sunday, Bonifacio Martin and Santanilla, James and Joseph Angali, Apolinar Chimunga, Jerome Anasco, Sabino Chilito and Vicente Leyton, small and verdant plateau discovered that protection offered by its abrupt boundaries, abundant and generous and promising water forests, appropriate site to settle their families around a doctrine chapel, without suspecting the existence of lytic testimony of the parents.
with their wives and children were near the brook near the Cabuyal to the Star, chaired by the statue of flute player
, legendary symbol of artistic tradition. Even when the Governor of the Province Diego de Ospina said to the guard spot San Agustin and Don Jorge de Valderrama made legal restitution of land to the occupants, in fact the new owners of the Hacienda de Laboy, who extended their ambition as far as losing the Blue Mountains, launched legal action against the founders of the town . Half a century
between paragraphs, headings and engolillados characters were needed for the Viceroy José de Ezpeleta and Galdeano, authorize the legal foundation of the town, whose second anniversary together today to citizenship Huila. The insistent pleas of the residents were served with the appointment of Priest Dr. Jacinto de Victoria as interim priest of St. Augustine and its annex The LaBoy.
passed a long century of sleepy life interrupted only by the presence of some foreign scientists who followed in the footsteps of Fray Juan de Santa Gertrudis and Francisco José de Caldas wise up when they did become a national issue, Colonel Agustin Codazzi and General Carlos Cuerzo Márquez. It is at this time when performing the second settlement with the arrival of immigrants from Cauca and Nariño.
Muñoz Burbano, Pino, Guzman, Hurtado, Ibarra, Ordonez, Ñañez are, among others, names that are signed with pasture ubérrimos presence to complement the fields of coca and food crops of the early settlers. An interesting land acquisition process of economic change and cultural presence in the environment transforms into a kind of social and political continuity of the tradition created by the University and society Cauca.
In the first quarter century of the present century the civil foundation is made of St. Augustine. Corresponded lead the idea of \u200b\u200ba priest in the image of their pastor, Monsignor Esteban Rojas. Repizo Arsenio was the Father, a priest born in Aipe, which he left to study at the Seminary of Bogotá, which was interrupted by the economic crisis of the late nineteenth century, following civil wars. Monsignor took him to Semirario Rojas Mayor Elias and then Garzon where he was ordained on October 7, 1899. Always ministered in parishes with a double header: Thessaly and Nátaga Paicol, Alpujarra and Colombia, Altamira and Tarqui Villavieja and Colombia, Altamira and Tarqui Villavieja and Aipe, San Antonio Tello and strengthening, and in 1907, pastor of Pitalito and St. Augustine, religious centers should meet simultaneously.
weekly visits to St. Augustine in the ways of Criollo and Matanzas and the ascent of the Alto del Obispo bewitched envisions the sacred valley of the dynamic priest who in 1917 resolved to stay in St. Augustine and from there Pitalito address.
Repizo The Father's presence causes a set of socio-political changes that start with St. Augustine and to liberate their integration into Huila. Don José María Burbano and other civic leaders accompany and support the deputy Simon E. Arboleda Ordinance obtain municipal building, executed by Governor Camacho Gratiniano with the appointment of Don José María Burbano as the first Mayor on July 20, 1926, inauguration of the first management team should remain in public memory, in addition to the Mayor Don Abraham Bravo with the substitution of Don Joaquin Sanchez, as a judge, Mr. Jeremiah Repizo Vanegas, Agapito, Don Teodolfo Rivera, treasurer. This group of worthy citizens must add the names of the members City Council opened on August 8th: Lorenzo Munoz, Raymond Hurtado, Heliodoro Ñáñez, Gustavo and Leopoldo Muñoz, Alcides Muñoz, Juan B. Cabrera, Francisco Cabrera, Vicente Guzmán Pino Rodoldo. This group of fathers, families of pro generators are at the core of present San Augustine, soon joined him Motta Pastor Ruben Mazorra, the educator and historian Carlos Ramón Repizo, the Ordóñez, Tiberio López, Félix Trujillo, Nicanor Cabrera many others with strong encouragement from the village started to open to new realities.
Local businesses looking for expansion and cross the road and to vitalize the settlement Saffron of Papalito in the beautiful plains called the High of the idols and then would be the municipality of Isnos.
After the presence of Preus and Archaeological Park was established by Eugenio Salas Trujillo, archaeological research has its splendor with Perez de Barradas, Ceballos and Luis Duque Gomez, who are in their full discloser and Tiberio López Eduardo Unda in its zealous advocates.
The Repizo Father's mind, a man of broad liberal education, could not flourish without centers diffuser material culture. In addition to schools in the villages managed the creation of the College of The Presentation in 1938 and 6 years then helped the Institute and Trade High School, founded by the humanist priest Ignacio Córdoba Cruz graduate, then processed in establishments Cooperative Sacred Heart and the National Laureano Gómez. This platform conplete cultural foundation of the Augustinian Atalaya Issuer by the Pastor Jorge Eduardo Vargas and the Casa de la Cultura, broadcasters Augustinian spiritual heritage.
From Repizo Arsenio Alejo Astudillo until there is a brilliant journey of struggle for the conquest of territory but of course that reveals isolated nationally at the same time they discover their youth in their artistic value. It is the bright dawn of hope. The
Magdalena River discovery stops for centuries before the wall of its mountain ranges and solitary confinement at San Augustine, but from the third foundation is open to Colombia as the human heart, from within, and today, after the peak of its two hundred years, wake up to the tutelary gods to project not as a forgotten town naysayers, but like the throne of God with which he dreamed of the artist.
San Agustin, November 24, 1990
----- Gilberto Vargas Motta
GILBERTO VARGAS MOTTA .- Natural Acevedo. Professional journalist, Professor of History and Literature of the Universidad Javeriana. Its educational and literary activity began in 1944 as vice-rector of Secondary School and Commerce, College Córdoba. He served as Secretary of Education, Comptroller of Neiva, Administrator of Hospital San Miguel de Neiva, Department Manager of the Provident Fund, Rector of the Institute of Neiva City, Huilense President of the Academy of History and professor of many colleges. Belongs to several cultural organizations and academies of history, education and letters.
----- From the book: biography of Father Ignacio REPIZO Arsenio Cordova C. Tribute
Aipe Municipality (Huila) to San Agustin (Huila) Published in 1992
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