Marmato

Marmato is a town and municipality in the Colombian Department of Caldas. Founded in 1540, Marmato has a population of 10,000 people. It is one of the historic gold-mining regions of the hemisphere. The town used to be the home of a large population of Cornish miners, who were drawn to this location from their native land to work the mines. Strip mining and the murder of a priest In 1946, after various disputes about mining rights, the government established a zone in the hills where the town st…