History of Cerinza

meaning "Here irrigation was superb." The legislation born of right reason and the principles of natural law, which was four articulated were its primary laws: Do not kill, do not steal, do not lie, do not take another man's wife. Criminal penalties were very drastic; death penalty for thieves to murderers, incestuous, adulterous were sometimes sentenced to death and others forced to eat chili.

In 1556 the illustrious Mr. Fray Juan de los Barrios, convened a synod and according to Fray Martin de los Angeles, the Dominican Order, destination to evangelize the natives of Tunja and Indian peoples, subject to the cacique Tundama parents Dominican Fray Francisco López Camacho, Fray Juan de Zamora, Fray Pedro Martin Palomino and Fray Tomas Fernandez. These men were to catechize Aboriginal Cerinza. In 1571 the first provincial chapter met at that time and had Cerinza doctrineros Dominicans. The inhabitants of Cerinza worked and pooled to obtain political independence and not be subject to another town and that was how in 1781 requested were sent priest to say Mass and administer to them the sacraments.

In 1810, he organized the New Kingdom of Granada, distributed in 10 provinces among which was that of Tunja. In 1814 it was divided into five (5) departments, the North with Tuta, Sotaquirá, Paipa, Tunja, Santa Rosa, Cerinza, Bethlehem, Sátiva,