GUARNE

is a municipality of Colombia, located in the eastern sub region of the department of Antioquia. It limits with the municipalities of Copacabana, Girardota and San Vicente, San Vicente, Rionegro and Medellín.

Altitude of the municipal seat (meters above sea level): 2150

Average temperature: 17º C

Reference distance: 25 Km from Medellín

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A little history...

Guarne, "A Real de Minas" in times past; "La Puerta de Oriente" in all periods, and whom Governor Dionisio Tejada called "Elida de la Candelaria". About Real de Minas, historians say: "Like many of the state's towns, Guarne was built on what they called the settlers, Real de Minas, an establishment that consisted of fixing a gold spot of a wealthy owner, with a or more gangs of black slaves for the exploitation of minerals.This "Real de Minas" existed in the same place where the town is located today, on the left bank of the La Mosca stream, and belonged for a long time to Don Prudencio Marulanda. Origin of the name Guarne derives from "Guane", name of a chief of the valley of La Mosca, from the Guane tribe that populated the territories of the current department of Santander and that penetrated the plateau of Rionegro by the Nare River, access road of other peoples.

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On June 17, 1781 the neighbors of Guarne, La Mosca and its environs rioted against the Spanish government, originating the first comunero movement in Antioquia. On July 11, 1814, the governor of the State Dionisio de Tejada, changed the name to Guarne for the one of Elida, name that had little duration. Los Comuneros de Guarne First movement that began in Antioquia on June 17, 1781. In this regard, it is extraordinary and valuable for the knowledge of our history, the chronicle published by Luis López Gómez, member of the Colombian Academy of History, July 1961 in number 21 of the newspaper "Inquietud" of Guarne.

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López Gómez says that the official of the Spanish Crown, Mr. Pedro Biturro Pérez, who resides in Rionegro, sent a letter to the Governor of the Province of Antioquia, Francisco Silvestre y Sánchez, in which he gave a thorough account of the rebels the peaceful population of Guarne, a short distance from Medellin, had dared on June 17 and subsequent days of that same year, to ignore the mandates of the legitimately constituted authority. After doing the analysis of the situation, he narrates exactly: "Immediately on June 17 last, which was a holiday, the people of the Guarne Minerals and their surroundings gathered to hear Mass, in the help of the Chapel there is, leaving it the crowd of people who had come, armed, drumming and tumultuously, went to the pulpería of Jerónimo Mejía with vocinglería and saying: -LIVE THE KING AND DEATH THE GOVERNMENT- ". Later, Biturro adds: "The tumultuous garrisons went down to this place, at least 200, under the pretext of paying the donation, and entered armed with shotguns, plates, swords, swords, bows, machetes, clubs and even backpacks. Don Manuel Jaramillo, though a neighbor of Medellin, came down in front of this tumult to this place on the Negro River, accompanied by a mulatto named Patricio Londoño, who was and is one of those in the tumult. " The popular discontent of Guarne was encouraged by the owners of mines, to whom another disposition of the visiting regent ordered to exploit only the minerals that had "indicated the laws and ordinances, and to tax them with two pesos per capita, for those who were dedicated to these operations. " This movement was more fortunate because he achieved all his requests, as confirmed by the then Governor of the Province of Antioquia, Don Cayetano Vuelta Lorenzana in a letter of justification sent to the Viceroy, where they said: "I thought it was good not to let them grant what I could deny them, begging them to retire to their respective homes without causing further disturbances or worries, observing the subordination and obedience due to this government and other members of justice. " This is how Guarne was framed within the common history of our country.