History of Honda

The Great Colombia

Colonial home in Honda (Colombia)

To be news in Bogotá the defeat of the royalists at Boyacá, fled the Spanish Viceroy and considered most committed several died on the way, and those who were possessed Honda reached such terror that were drowned when embarking on some port. When the Liberator went through that port to go die in Santa Marta, to pay the barges that sailed had to authorize the General Joaquín Posada Gutiérrez to hire a loan in trade. On September 8 of that year, at the initiative of the General himself Posada Gutiérrez, neighborhood, represented by a Board of the cream of the port, ruled against the Government hailing the Liberator as Chief Executive and General Rafael Urdaneta as accidental charge.

Republic neogranadina

The governor of the province of Mariquita General José María Vesga, took up arms against the legitimate government here in 1840, he sent a submission to the General Joaquin Paris meeting was lightweight contenders side by dry Quebrada Vesga forces retreated Calunga plain, where they were beaten by Paris on January 9, 1841, then retired Vesga the population, and even destroyed the bridge to prevent passage Gualí of pursuing him, was defeated again . In 1854 Colonel Julio Arboleda organized Tequendama column, and Honda occupied and fortified against the dictatorship of José María Melo .

Germán Pérez contributed to the development of the city, in terms of agriculture and livestock.

Regeneration