officiate the holy Religious sacrifice. Since
then, the whole neighborhood began to celebrate the famous "Real Party",
which every year is held and ends on Ash Wednesday. History is not a science,
an art and the man she has only succeeded in using their imagination. Anatole
France. Viracocha was one of the descendants of Manco Capac. Viracachá is the
same Indian name but adulterated or evolved. Viracocha in Inca language meaning
"lake air" Viracachá, very old pre-conquest population. Its
prehistory is lost in time, its unfolding millennium, like many other peoples
to the arrival of the conquistadors did not possess great wealth in gold and
emeralds, were buried in the lethargic pit of oblivion, because their writers
never visited these counties to describe . The valuable files we knew in the
building we called town hall, everything was reduced to ashes by a fire that occurred
in the past ordeal of political violence and the Viracachense citizens living
exclusively from their agricultural work does not conceive that destroy wealth
belong to all. And a question that continues to echo the stone mouthy intensive
repeats: hunger and other needs of the community, have no political color. However,
we have searched several files Boyacense academy history regarding visits and
documents the early chroniclers and historians as Johan de Castellanos, Lucas
Fernandez de Piedrahita, Peter Simon, Pedro Cieza de León, Oviedo, etc.. Something
we have found them we refer: It is known that then, in 1556, the illustrious
Mr. Fray Juan de los Barrios, according to the Reverend Father Fray Martin de
los Angeles, Dominican, destination to evangelize the Indians Viracachá ,
Ramiriquí, Siachoque, and other peoples parents of the same order Fray Jerónimo
de Peralta, Fray Pedro Duran and Fray Juan de Montemayor. These Dominicans
discharge their responsibilities for several years and regularly visit
Viracachá whatever it was here at that time Dominican house,
