History of Honda

rnor Armero was about establishing schools in Honda, Mariquita , Ibagué , Ambalema and El Espinal . The same Governor built a school building and established Honda street lighting lanterns in this population and in the capitals of the counties in the province. 

Of the first acts of the Federal Government when he moved to Bogotá after returning from Tunja, was sent to Honda, in January 1815, under the command of Commander Venezuelan Alcantara, for deportation to Cartagena, a few Spanish, of which ten shot and six that Commander, and meanwhile the Governor Armero was shot here at Capuchin Friar Pedro Infiesta Corulla and Spanish, Martinez, Hatch, Bartolome Fernandez, Juan Calvo, Francisco Serrano, Joaquín Gómez, José Zapatero and Emeterio Bernal, and ordered others deported to exile. The remains of those exhumed shot with great pomp the royalists in 1818.

The Reconquest

On May 1st of 1816 Honda occupied without resistance Lt. Col. Ramon Sicily, because the Patriots had left the town the next day ordered the oath of Fernando VII . On December 25, the formal announcement was made. He was Chief of the Province Colonel Donato Ruiz, who was appointed on 27 April by the conquistador Don Pablo Morillo. On August 29 of that year was shot Francisco Ramirez, and November 1, Governor patriot José León Armero. In 1819, with the signing of a hundred residents of the principal of Honda, requested the Governor of the province of Mariquita license to hang the altarpieces of Carlos IV and Fernando VII, and the license granted by the Governor General Jose Maria Montilla, hung from the gallows, the hangman, pictures with great solemnity in the square, and then thrown