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History of Tibana


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The village is of pre-Hispanic origin. He ruled a Cacique, a tributary of Tunja Zaque ¨. Founded in 1537 by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada (two months after the founding of the capital of the Viceroyalty of New Granada or Bogota ) who after arriving with more than 500 men on his expedition in search of emeralds Somondoco founded the Villa Hispanic. Its natural were evangelized by the Dominicans, from 1,556. Years later the Dominicans in the process of spreading the Catholic religion evangelized Ramiriquí Miraflores and belonging to the town of Tibana.

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