History of Sogamoso

After the fire of the maximum temple of the muiscas, and the distribution of lands and natives among the Spaniards, several chapels were built.

In the beginnings of the Viceroyalty of the New Granada, the number of unoccupied Spaniards grew in an alarming way and so much in Santafé of Bogotá as in Tunja, "provoking anxiety reigned among soldiers of the old service, poor people without work and vagabonds that marauded without truce putting a note of serious bewilderment. None of them had what to eat, if it was not for the pilferages more than for the charities" (Gabriel Camargo Pérez in 1937). 

 To solve this problem partly, in the city of Tunja, Don Bernardino of Mojica and Guevara he/she intended to transform to the town of the Valley of Iraca into a village. Template:It mentions required The project miscarried the resources then they were dedicated to the foundation of a population to flatter to gift Andrés Díaz Worships of Leyva, giving origin, in 1572, to the Villa of Santa María of Leyva, place more near the capital of this president of the Real Audience of the New Kingdom of Granada. 

Among who opposed you to the creation of the village in Sogamoso the Alcalde of Tunja, Miguel he/she stood out Sánchez, in fact the same adventurer that, with Juan Rodríguez Vine, it had fastened fire to the religious building of the theocracy muisca. 

The King Carlos V gave Sogamoso a portrait to San