History of Tutaza

therhood, as recorded in the files of Tunja Dominicans. Tradition holds that the Virgin of the Rosary is home Tutazá Quiteño. The bust and hands, then of clothing, are of singular beauty, aquiline nose, gentle air and good height. Cobíjala spacious and has a blanket at his feet a crescent. He carries in his right hand and the rosary in his left hand the Child Jesus. Corona and halos of stars are son and mother.

Tutazá was an Indian reservation that was finished on October 16, 1777 in the amount of $ 1,050 for some neighbors to the interim mayor Jose Maria Campusano and Lanz. The auctioneer of the guard was Don Javier Garcia native and resident of Sativa.

Tutazá was represented in the proclamation of the Republic Tunja as October 9, 1811 by a voter, Custodian of the Kings. With respect to the liberator Tutazá also provided, delegating to the independence army soldiers such as the forefather Morantes Pio, who died in theBattle of Boyacá on August 7, 1819 .

Simon Bolivar visited this town on July 18 of 1819 and learned that the Liberator's main industry was Tutazá dwellers making clay utensils. He was in the church and met the Virgen del Rosario called the Star of Tutazá. It is said that the July 25, 1819 during theBattle of Pantano de Vargas , when Republican troops were almost defeated, the Liberator fervently invoked the name of the Virgin of Tutazá, but did not remember the name of the people and said Virgin beyond where they make pots . Colonel Juan Jose Rondon at the head of fourteen Lancers boyacenses nine and six Venezuelans, threw themselves on their opponents, spread panic in the Spanish troops were already victorious and