History of Viota

Viotá the land where the population is located and its suburbs. In 1843 its population was no more than 482 inhabitants, while for 1870 and 2183 individuals had registered. Come the year 1884 its population had dwindled to 1,850 subjects perhaps due to the proliferation of civil wars and the transition of crops, until the arrival of coffee.

The cultivation of coffee began in the late nineteenth century and reached a golden age in the decades from 1920 to 1940 . In September 1902 at the Plaza de Viotá was shot by the Conservative government forces, Colonel Antonio Arbelaez liberal guerrilla leader.

Year of 1905, the population census 4537 population reached. The possible explanation for this growth (abnormal within Tequendama and Sumapaz ), maybe it was in there was strong during the Thousand Days War liberal group led by Aurelio Mazuera and Mazuera, owner of the hacienda "La Touraine "and stayed relatively far from the conservative rivals. It reported 7197 inhabitants by 1912, due to its coffee haven status.

Maria Cano organized the Red Aid among tenant farmers, sharecroppers, farmers and day laborers and then leagues organized or agricultural unions and the Colombian Communist Party that was strong in the region. During the time of the violence , between 1946 and 1958 , Viotá was defended by communists and liberals who prevented was occupied by conservative forces. Then, a period of peace and institutionalization of reform local, forty years of progress allowed the municipality, interrupted by the international coffee crisis, so that in this century have resubmitted the armed conflict and violence in the region . In