History of Guateque

Enrique Olaya Herrera

Born in Guateque, Boyacá on November 12, 1880 and died in Rome, February 18 1937.Presidente of the Republic between 1930 and 1934. Enrique Olaya Herrera was one of the most distinguished statesmen Centennial generation in Colombia.

Enrique Olaya Herrera took his primary education in the public school Guateque, next to his parents. His mother, who liked to write in simple prose and very authentic, greatly influenced his intellectual style. His father, a graduate doctor, not exercising his profession as was devoted to trade and agriculture. Olaya Herrera are reminded as the "journalist Guateque boy" because at age 12 he founded and directed the small newspaper The Patriot, with whom he won trade with Colombia several newspapers, including The Spectator of Medellín. Precisely the Cano proposed a public subscription to purchase a small printing bound to "boy reporter".Olaya completed his undergraduate studies at the University Republican. There was the teachings of prominent jurists as Diego Perez Mendoza, Juan Manuel Rudas, Ignacio V. Espinosa, Carlos Arturo Torres, Jose Camacho Carrizosa et al. At the University he founded the weekly student, a handwritten newspaper circulated among students.

Township Guateque seen from the exit to Bogota

After his studies in Belgium, on his return to the country Enrique Olaya