It is noted for its natural environment and for having emblematic places of the department such as the chapel of Jesus Nazareno and the ruins of a Spanish seminary in the village of Servitá.

The inhabitants, led by Vicente Calderón, had sent to the archbishop of Santafé de Bogotá a petition to found their own parish, because the roads in the region were dangerous and impassable, making it difficult for people to attend religious services.

[citation needed] The news caused repudiation by animal rights groups and citizens in general, especially because of the cruel nature of the facts and the means by which the villagers justified the actions.

It is estimated that the number of Andean condors inhabiting the Colombian area of the Andes Mountains does not exceed 150 specimens, which makes the events, which eventually went unpunished, controversial.

[4] According to the statistics of the CAS (Corporación Autónoma Regional de Santander) this municipality occupies the first place in deaths of Andean Condors by poisoning in the distribution area of the species in the Colombian Andes.