[2] The village was established to facilitate access to the Madgalena River in the New Kingdom of Granada, in addition to creating a new frontier with the Motilones natives.

[3] The construction of the parish church of San Pablo began in 1889, it was blessed by the bishop of the Diocese of Nueva Pamplona, Evaristo Blanco in 1915.

[4] As of 1953, the municipal seat had two churches, the parish of San Pablo with a modern style architecture and the old chapel of Belén, made of adobe and tapia materials.

[5] The chapel has an retable of Nuestra Señora de Belén, which is believed to have been found by a woman named Lucía in one of the stones of the Trinidad Creek in the 1600s.

[6] The Santurban Regional Natural Park in Salazar de las Palmas [es] comprises approximately 19,088 hectares delimited by CORPONOR.