History of Guadalajara de Buga

Elevated to the status of municipality by Ordinance No. 11 on February 9th of 1884 .

Etymology

The word is originally Buga Caribbean and to be found in the Isthmus of Panama in the name of a town BUGABA which means "place of the spear". Finally Guadalajara de Buga was the name given to the Spanish city founded in the Cordillera Central by order of the governor of Popayan, Don Luis de Guzman, and in memory of this country, it was Guadalajara in Spain. Then when Governor Don Alvaro de Mendoza Carvajal moved the city to Valle del Cauca , the Guadalajara called the Victoria, but prevailed name Buga .

The stories about the name of Buga to conclude that Hispanic communities that inhabited this province had different names and the name of Buga, product allocation is that the Spanish had destroyed the tribes and submitted in the company of conquest.

prehispanic cultures in the province of Buga XVI Century

The history of Hispanic communities that inhabited the region has been reconstructed from the accounts and chronicles of the conquerors who participated in the armies of conquest as Pedro Cieza de León, Jorge Robledo and chroniclers Joan de Castellanos, Fray Jerónimo de Escobar, Francisco Guillen Chaparro, etc. And the work of Tulio Enrique Tascón about the history of the Conquest and Colonization of Buga. According to them, the Cauca river valley was inhabited by a variety of groups or societies that were grouped into political-administrative units called "provinces",