ultimate authority of towns, municipalities and
cities consisting of a ruler a personero a sheriff and several scribes.
GOVERNANCE comprising various councils headed by a governor. GENERAL CAPITANIA
Created in regions where there was any danger as rebellious Indians, with the
configuration of a government headed by a military. On the condition found
cities, let evangelization of the Indians, caring for the welfare of these, the
crown gives this right to the conquerors by THE CAPITULACIONES benefit the
crown with a fifth of the exploited. One of these is the capitulations granted
by the President lords and judges of the Royal Audiencia of Santa Fe on behalf
of the crown to Captain FRANCISCO NUNEZ PEDROSO as military governor of the
city of San Sebastián, which sheltered the left bank of the great river waters
PUNI below, to the province of Thimbe and Calimoima. Capitulation granted as a
result of the rich mines of: 1 SAL as charters reform and La Quinta. Exploited
until 1899 2 GOLD and SILVER as were La Parroquia, Cajongora, Three canoes and
Mal step. So San Sebastián de Mariquita became part of the group of the first
cities founded in Colombia by the Spaniards in the sixteenth century, sharing
this honor with cities such as Bogota, Popayan, Pasto, Cali, Ibague, Cartago,
Buga, Novita, Anserma, Tunja, Velez, Pamplona, Santa Fe de Antioquia,
Rionegro, Cartagena, Baranoa, Santa Cruz de Mompox, and more. Forming these political
and administrative centers of the new organization was the meeting of the
continents in the New World
