History of Jerico

Conquest

According to historical accounts said that the expedition of Spanish conquistador Don Juan Badillo cruel and ambitious, given the name of this place Gori found inhabited by indigenous and Don Francisco Caesar jericoano who arrived in the territory in mid-sixteenth century ( 1540 ) but not inhabited by not finding large deposits of gold, then, these highlands were covered by forests that were difficult unexplored.

Settlement and Foundation

The year was 1825 when eleven knights proposed to the government of Antioquia Province wastelands buy almost all of Southwestern Antioquia.

In the year of 1835 were answered in favor of the four survivors of the eleven applicants. They were: Don Juan Santamaría Isaza, Don Gabriel Echeverri, Don Alejo Santamaría and Don Juan Uribe Mondragón, initiating the epic of the colonization of Southwestern Antioquia. Between the years of 1835 and 1840 , Don Juan Santamaria traveled twice to uncultivated lands, it was he who gave the name of "Stones" and managed the entry of the two first settlers to the territory Jericoano: Esteban Osorio and Jose Maria Bermudez who began clearing the "Mama", where began the industrial and social life of the town and the location of the first two families.

In 1849 a group of colonists settled in the place of "Roblecabildo" (today Corregimiento Palocabildo) until 1850 they moved their homes to the place now occupied by the city and is born "Stone Village" created by the Provincial Chamber of Antioquia on 28 September of the year in question