The first settlers were the grasses who
occupied the territory between San Gabriel (Ecuador) to the confluence of the
river with Bobo Guáitara to its mouth with the Patia River, including the area
comprised Yacuanquer and leaks of Pasto. These aborigines according JIJON And
CAMAAÑO in the seventeenth century, were divided into the pastures themselves,
barbecues or Coayqueres, Muellamueses and Colimas. In Exprovincia Obando found
tombs in which the ceramic is a revelation of their beliefs and customs; on
ceramic potters have left shaped its history through ideographic writing
represented
