figure refers to organization of the population
imposed by the Iberians, known as "Directs", comprising 800
inhabitants by natural Paipa Captain Gomez de Cifuentes. Similarly in 1596 he
was conferred the Commendation of Bonza Pedro Nuñez Cabrera with 231 Indians.
Its formation dates back to the urban Hispanic February 19 of 1602, when the
visitor Luis Enriquez declared the formation of an indoctrination center in the
place where today stands the central square. Based on the classic Spanish grid
consisting of a central square and surrounding roads parallel, regularly spaced
and crossed by other similarly arranged in a clear allowing the civic,
religious and administrative located on its four sides and broken up by land to
the church, the house cural, Governor's house and chieftains, confirming
resguardos rural and precepts of authority. The first building of the same year
was the Church in clay tile, stone foundations, walls, walls in a plant 30
yards long and 11 wide, in the same place where the Cathedral stands today. In
1755 rose to the rank of Paipa corregimiento. Figure that could act as police
and criminal justice meant the actual tax collections in your jurisdiction, and
other surrounding villages. On November 4, 1755 he was named Don Ignacio de
Caicedo as first Corregidor of Paipa. In 1758 appointed Juan Avellaneda, Miguel
Rodriguez and Esteban Lara as the first mayor of Paipa. In 1778, for the first
time was to demarcate the boundaries of the municipality of Paipa, then guards
Bonza, Paipa and Sativa. As the first event that led to Paipa "Tourist
City", is the arrival of the first specialists in 1825 to undertake an
analysis of the composition of the saline water of Paipa. But it was in 1852
when the central government began to take an interest in natural resources and
sends a geographic committee headed by General Agustín Codazzi. The
construction of the current Central Church (now cathedral) Jaime Rook in the
park began in 1906
