In 1537, Captain Pedro Fernandez de
Valenzuela, commissioned by Quesada, to find esmeraldíferos of Somondoco reefs,
is sent to the region and discover a pot of slopes that are intertwined in a
topography, rivers bathed Somondoco, Machetá and Súnuba, colidando with Cundinamarca .
With the arrival of Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada to the hole on 24 June
1537, the indigenous population of Tenzuca, named San Juan. Later the
Spanish called Tenza, decaying Tenzuca word which was the capital of the Indian
region. Ruled by the chief Runi, Hunza tax.
