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History of Umbita


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upstream to reach the hill of Castillejo and hence taking the boundaries of Icabuco and prawns until the first boundary of the limits and demarcation signage is made ​​of the said Parish and within it the neighborhood sufficient for maintenance of the priest, fraternities, church and other things necessary, gouaches and firewood and any comfort to the faithful with what my commission is made ​​in conformity to me and stated for the record of diligence signed by notary before this. "Parish was called Our Lady of the Úmbita Chiquinquirá and was appointed as the first priest in 1778 Hermenegildo Vanegas., June 7th 1780, the mayor of Chief Justice of Tunja, appointed as mayor Hermenegildo pedáneo Bernal. The second Mayor Vicente Valero was named in 1783 before the arrival of the Spanish, existed in what is now the territory of intense activity Úmbita Muiscas to be a big village in Icabuco commanding a Cacique (Castellanos 1601) to which would be subject to the casicazgos Chiriví and Tibana and another in what is now the town of Umbita called Gacha. According to the National Archives of Colombia (ANC, VisBoy 7, f, 617 ff) and Icabuco produced hayo Gacha (coca) and cotton. Vestiges of Muiscas of Icabuco, because in the village there is a Nine Stacks sandstone, observed by Roberto Lleras (1986) in which nine carved circular holes whose depth varies between 14 and 27 cm and a diameter between 17 and 19 cms.Some researchers suggest that it was used as an astronomical observatory near Nine In Batteries tombs have been excavated containing Muisca ceramics. 

's book Presence of Boyacá, (1953) says that Umbita is a small population
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