slightly livestock, who
then built in the Valley Chapel with sticks and straw, altar bells and some
vestments.
In 1702 these parishioners dug a process for disaggregating doctrineros Onzaga
waiting erection of independent parish under the patronage of Our Lady of the
Rosary and Santa Barbara Chiquinquirá Mogotes petition was brought to the
archdiocesan curia of Santa Fe; after much insistence and opposition doctrinero
of Onzaga on January 24, 1722, the Archbishop of Santa Fe dictate the order
declaring erected the above parish, exactly as requested, stating the complete
segregation and demarcated by the 4 cardinal points its vast expanse.
The fact of having the viceparish Mogotes its own mayor, since 1703, allows us
to believe that certainly Mogotes civil entity, with its own organization, was
prior to the erection of the parish church community as definitive.
By this date of the founding of civil Mogotes can mark the June 26, 1703.
It certainly can be called principal founder of Mogotes Captain Don CRISTOBAL
GUALDRON DE LA PEÑA, who was probably the first mayor in 1703 of viceparish
Mogotes, who donated the land for the founding of the parish, also heads the
first request of priest to administer to the residents of that place, gift box
or the first image of Our Lady of chiquinquira who revere the original chapel
and was the first steward, in 1703, of the brotherhood of the Rosary
By organizing the Republic Mogotes became a parish district of San Gil, with
the creation of the state of Santander, he joined the Department of Guanentá
then when constituting the Municipal regime Santander Department in 1887,
Mogotes became of Municipality immediately
