History of Floridablanca

Conquest / Cologne

In 1543 Martin Galeano , Spanish captain crossed and divided the territories of the Muiscas and Guanes . Now this captain had founded the town of Vélez , in 1539 .

As noted Guane territory the river basins Suarez and Pienta-Fonce and Chicamocha. The present territory of Santanderes identified the Spanish provinces Corner Velez (Muiscas independent), the caciques Muiscas subject to Duitama , the Guanes, the Chitareros , the Yariguies , of oppose and Carares and Motilones ; seems that ethnic boundaries were largely the riverbeds, guarded by a captain of a chief tributary nearby, this is called, "The Prehispanic Cabuya".

Between 1551 and 1558 definitely defined jurisdictional spaces of the two cities Velez and Pamplona , this finding because of the mining district of the Golden River by locals, corresponding to the territory of today Floridablanca, leaving the side of the locals as the limit was set on the right bank of the Rio de Oro

In 1596 the son of Ortun Velasco, Juan Velasco, his family built a house and a church on the banks of the Rio Frio, called La Hacienda Bucarica . La Hacienda Bucarica became a center of consumption and market towns of Velez and Pamplona. The task of Bucarica of Juan Velasco was 204 souls (indigenous) Guanes of them 59 men in the working age (28 were gold washers and another 31 farmers), the rest were women and children and the elderly. It is perhaps the first settlement in what is now Floridablanca. For