title: Postage stamps and postal history of Tolima
text: # Postage stamps and postal history of Tolima
  
  This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Tolima.
  
  Tolima Department is one of the 32 departments of Colombia, located in the Andean region, in the center-west of the country. The department of Tolima was created in 1861 from a part of what had been Cundinamarca.
  
  ## First stamps
  
  The first postage stamps of Tolima were issued in 1870.
  
  