History of Honda

"City of Peace" for being one of two municipalities to limenses who escaped the scourge of political violence of the 1950s .  It is also known that people in the country by the "subienda" of fish, from approximately January to March each year and is presented by the spawning fish coming from the swamps of the north coast.

Honda is one of the oldest cities in Colombia , the site would increase the Villa de San Bartolomé was discovered by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada , Belalcázar Sebastian and Nicolas de Federman along with Captain Antonio Lebrija and Juan de San Martin in the first days of June 1539 , weeks after his departure from Bogotá , in May, just a year apart from the founding of Santa Fe de Bogota .

Erected in Villa on March 4, 1643, by order of the King of Spain.

Elevated to city status on June 15, 1830.

Pre-Columbian era

Since long before the arrival of the Spanish, Aboriginal society had established a network of trade with neighboring villagers middle slopes of the central and eastern mountain ranges within which the place of Honda had become obligatory stop.

Inhabited in the beginning by the aborigines Ondaimas and Gualies of ethnic Panche , language family of Caribbean , whose remains were found on the terraces located in that area, even in the area of Honda Perico, is a rock shelter where art rock.

In places known today as Alto del Rosario, La Sonrisa, Arrancaplumas, Santa Lucia, Bogota,