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History of Honda


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y had settled there the river port needed the New Kingdom.

While the final location of the port that was conducted in the vicinity of Aboriginal people entrusted to neighbors Mariquita had made ​​the place a distribution point for goods if had managed to give a clear boost to trade in this way. From here you take the city was discovered and conquered the indigenous settlement and served as a reference for the establishment of the Spanish.

Remains of Old Aqueduct Honda (Colombia)

The erection of Villa at the request of the neighbors, who offered 5,000 pesos for the port to be raised to the category of Villa, this grace was given by royal decree issued by King Philip IV on March 4, 1643, and 5 February 1644 identified the terms of its jurisdiction dedicated to St. Bartholomew (the day of the founding of the city is celebrated the feast of the saint), also was assigned the shield with the emblems of the House of Austria and the Bourbons .

During colonial times and even before independence, the territory became part of the provinces of Mariquita and Neiva , which is then divided into the departments of Cundinamarca , Boyacá and Antioquia.

Now for the first quarter of the seventeenth century , the river port it constituted "a thatched huts where Indians lived, a Ladino, others entrusted" with the passing of the days became pernoctadero traveler, strangers, muleteers , merchants and civil and church officials.Honda was the first river port of New Kingdom of Granada since the seventeenth century.

Thus, Honda

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