The town is
situated on the west bank of the river of the same name was founded in 1610, on
September 14 by Pedro Vicente Morales, Spanish citizen who came from the New
Kingdom of Granada, which is now the Departments Cundinamarca and Boyacá was
chosen as the site of termination or furlough day in the path SimitĂ Regidor.
The fact of placing the town in that island and not in
the hills of the