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3 unusual facts about Tolima Department


Dukecynus

Dukecynus was discovered in the strata of La Venta in the department of Huila and Tolima in Colombia, where the fossil remains were found: the lower jaw and upper jaw with teeth (holotype specimen IGM 251149), more some referred molar teeth.

Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff

Working in the Tolima region inhabited by Amerindians and the renowned indigenous leader Quintin Lame, they also published a study indicating the indigenous culture of the local populations and also indicated the blood type variations among the indigenous groups of the Pijao in the Department of Tolima as further proof of their Amerindian identity as these tribes were arguing over rights to their ancestral territories.

Henry Rojas

Henry Andres Rojas Delgado (born July 27, 1987 in Ibagué, Tolima) is a football striker from Colombia that plays for Deportes Tolima.


Movimiento Armado Quintin Lame

Thanks to an organization created years earlier by the indigenous leader Manuel Quintín Lame (1880–1967), the group had the support of many indigenous communities in the region of the Valle del Cauca, Huila, Tolima, and parts of the departments of Meta and Caquetá Department.


see also

Mariquita

Mariquita, Tolima, a municipality in the Tolima department of Colombia.

Mariquita Airport, an airport serving Mariquita, a municipality of the Tolima Department in Colombia.