History of Tuta

Tuta Municipality during the eighteenth century belonged to the territorial administration and Combita Oicata. The December 22, 1786 the mayor of chief justice of the city of Tunja headman appointed as Mayor Don Jeronimo Escobar, from January 2, 1794 Tuta territory is annexed to the administration of the valley under the direct Sotaquirá Mayor Paipa, remaining until 1816, the year in which he managed his own administration, being its first mayor Mr. Peter Fonseca. Tuta and Sotaquirá remained governed by a mayor only until the early 1800s. At the signing of the constitution of Tunja, December 9, 1811, Tuta was represented by the elected Dr. Don Francisco de Jove Huego. In 1813, when the independence of the province of Tunja was proclaimed among the signatories of the act was the priest Manual Garcia representing Tuta. With the organization of the province in departments, Tuta consisted of the Department along with North Sotaquirá, Paipa, Tunja, Santa Rosa de Vitervo, Susacón, Soata, Petaquero, Beteitiva, Tutaza, Corrales, and Busbanzá Tobacía. The liberator Simon Bolivar Tuta passed five times in 1820.

Tuta, name of indigenous origin. Its first inhabitants were called Tutas. Tuta according to some historians, Chibcha language, translates son of Sol Tutas place inhabited by Indians, is located deep depression whose composition is strongly accented on the tertiary formations draining fast and secure basic support for construction, runs on the basis of volcanic rocks Chicamocha river. The Spaniards took the Broken Guinua falling through the northwest part from the hill of the same name, they decided to settle separate white populated by indigenous hill, not on the banks of the creek bed of Ginua, but on its own displacement