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Manizales



Manizales is a city and municipality in central Colombia, capital of Department of Caldas and part of the region of Colombian Coffee-Growers Axis. Founded near the Nevado del Ruiz volcano in 1849 by a group of twenty Antioquians represented by Fermín López, Manuel Grisales, José María Osorio, Joaquín, Antonio, Victoriano Arango Gabriel Arango, Antonio Ceballos, Eduardo Hoyos and Marcelino Palacio, in the middle of a Civil War between bipartisan followers; Liberals against Conservatives.



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