name of: New Jerez de los
Caballeros, the location was in the headwaters of Bugalagrande (district of La
Marina in Tuluá). Meanwhile the Third Foundation made
between 1,557 - one thousand five hundred fifty-nine was
ordered by Governor Luis Guzman and performed by Rodrigo Diez de Fuenmayor and
was named Guadalajara de Buga . The location was in Tunessi
Valley - Desert of Sugarloaf. After the transfer of Foundation became
the March 4 of 1570 , ordered and executed by Gov. Alvaro
de Mendoza y Carvajal, baptizing Guadalajara of Our Lady of Victory in
Buga . And finally the final transfer was in 1573 the
site now occupied, ordered by Governor Jerome de Silva and Beltran Unzueta
executed by receiving the name of Guadalajara de Buga . The
residents of Guadalajara de Buga, given the circumstances noted and little land
suitable for agricultural activities they had, asked the High Authority of the
population moving to flat land. During the time of conquest lands were
inhabited by various tribes and brave warriors who resisted the invasion of
their land by the conquerors, these warriors were called the
"straights", hence its current name.
It was rebuilt in the Indian Territory
Quinamanoes in the region called "Babaya" that was located in the
mountainous area at the foot of Sugar Loaf Hill. In the second founding
the city was called "Guadalajara de Buga" and a third with the same
name, to come later capital of the province between1834 and 1887 ,
when it was organized as a municipality, in 1908 it was the capital
of the Department Buga for twenty months, and this, the shortest period between
one and creating another department in the same territory, until the creation
of the Department of Valle.
