This territory was inhabited by indigenous
groups were prominent among the Incas, the Huitotos, Quillacinga and Kamsa,
still persist. By 1542, the Spanish conquistador Hernán Pérez de Quesada plied
by the current territories of Caqueta and Putumayo. Then others arrived, as
Pedro de Agreda, Sebastian Belalcazar, Francisco Pérez de Quesada and Diaz
Pineda. During the colonial period, the Putumayo territory was part of the
province of Popayan; during the Great Colombia, belonged to Asuay territory,
which comprised part of modern Peruvian and Ecuadorian Amazon; in 1831 he
became again Popayan and
