History of Honda

Triumph, among others in recent excavations have found burial urns primary and secondary burials, lithic, ceramic and bone. Urns were reported in the towns of Arrancaplumas, Fishmongers and Mesuno. It is in these cases urns subglobular flattened body with short neck and wide mouth. Corresponding lids were not defined in their style, found only fragments thereof. However, in the area of ​​ceramic phytomorphic Arrancaplumas identified in association with other forms and decorations varied, infrequent elsewhere. Perico area found more samples that make finding of rock art sites.

Spanish Colonization

Middle Magdalena River Valley Honda (Colombia)

Discovered in June 1539 at the site where the city now stands, Gualí confluence of the Dry Creek and the Rio Magdalena , the expedition had to settle down and endure the delay in making two brigs that would allow them to continue down the river , also, the site retained this first expedition he made ​​in transferring cargo necessary to circumvent the Honda called Jump. The progressive trade peninsular provinces of the New Kingdom of Granada, had the Magdalena River and the only way to establish a secure contact with the inside. In response, the fundamental interest of the Royal Court was to set apart the way whose opening had been entrusted to Alonso de Olaya to the extent that it was necessary to link to Santa Fe de Bogota to the Magdalena River to the distribution of goods bound Tocaima , Ibagué andMariquita , a safe harbor and viable. Considering geographical conditions that made ​​the Honda jump a natural barrier to navigation, and for the last decades of the sixteenth