History of Olaya

The battle at that place was scary for Spanish, so the Governor and Captain General Don Gaspar de Rodas took sides and made ​​to pay dearly indigenous defense, no less brutal actions like delete to stick to Indian Chiefs revolt.

In 1579 , warriors Nutabes returned to defeat the invaders, and it lasted a good time tug of war between the two troops, until the technological superiority of the conquerors eventually win the war and banish the natives who failed to escape the depth of the jungle town of Sopetran .

The first owners of the land were the captains Olaya Francisco Lopez de la Rúa and Juan Garcia Ordaz, whom the government initially awarded them land. But on March 3, 1616 the Magistrate Francisco Herrera Campuzano lands dispossessed Tajamí in jurisdiction of Olaya today, Indian Peter Amato for adjudicárselas the captains españos Francisco Martinez, Rodrigo de Carvajal and Torreblanca Bartolomé Sánchez. In its decree the Magistrate Herrera Campuzano also available, they were not only destroyed the huts of the Indians, but that the latter were finally expelled from the region and led to Sopetran . Because of these actions is considered to Magistrate Herrera Campuzano as founder of Olaya.

Olaya was named in 1851 Sopetran Canton, was called Sacaojal there in 1855 , and later Sucre. It was a town that was competing with another neighbor for the honor of being the county seat of the entire territory.