History of Policarpa

river is rich in gold, what Sindaguas obtained with a similar method to mazamorreo and worked using the rolling system with the goldsmiths who produced beautiful pieces and now on display in museums in the city of Pasto (Gold Museum of the Banco de la República) and the capital of the neighboring country of Ecuador, Quito (Museum of the Central Bank). This has demonstrated that indigenous Sindaguas had trade links with Piartal culture that populated much of the Andes Nariñense reaching Tulcán the Ecuadorian city of the Incas by invaders, who called it "Tunkahuan" (Quechua word means: People who live in the mountains) to the region where lived those unruly natives.

During the time of Spanish rule, the Sindaguas revolted against that domain, a fact that resulted in the punishment of the principal leaders or representative of that warlike race, forming the region of Punishment, place the last realistic hopes of Colombia are over, and of America's defeat Augustine Agualongo and where they happened military events of considerable importance during the "War of the Thousand Days".

Some historians agree - including José Rafael Sanudo - that in the early days of the conquest of Nariño, was founded in 1542 by the city of Madrigals by Don Sebastian de Belalcázar, on the bank of river Patia and specifically in a place known as Nachao and where now stands the township of El Ejido, place where are the old foundations of houses and Thomas Lopez was the inspector who in 1558 advised its citizens to move to a site that have better conditions to live and therefore decided to locate the young town in Madrigals, Narino site rediscovered by explorer Juan Pablo Guerrero in 1876 in relation to the town of Policarpa seems to be populated with people who once took refuge in Punishment and in the first decades of this century, the inspector Melchor War