History of Aranzazu

As was said back, Sergeant was the first name that took the town. Everything indicates that it was given in honor of Sergeant Escobar Buenaventura, then official General José María Córdova at the Battle of El Santuario, who as military fugitive came to this town before its founders. Here he found refuge. When several of the villagers came to the small village that was then Aranzazu met the military was established in the region. The founders arrived months after Buenaventura Sergeant Escobar, from Marinilla, Sonson Rionegro and Sanctuary, in search of new lands to colonize. The priest José Felipe Lopez Montes, quoted several times in his book "History of Aranzazu" whose first edition circulated in 1934 , has a long list of people as founders of the town. Among them is to Mr. José María Ocampo, Ciriaco Garcia, Celio Pérez, Juan Antonio Montes, Jesus Maria Duque, Miguel Pelaez, Torcuato Marín, Juan Nepomuceno Ramirez, Alejandro Granada, Ramón Ospina, José María Gómez, Ignacio Naranjo, León Orozco, Joaquín Vélez Eustaquio Duke, Manuel Salazar, Jose Vasquez,