History of Puerto Boyaca

left the city of Tunja to Puerto Boyacá in order to recover the territory but find Boyacá camps Texas Petroleum Company. The expedition change course and founded a Puerto Serviez at the mouth of the Rio Nare.

In 1945 the Texas Petroleum site changes to the town where farms Puerto Niño began.

Due to need to build a Texas town gives some land where Puerto Gustavo was founded in honor of Gustavo Rojas Pinilla , for December 15, 1957 and by Decree No.615 of the municipality Puerto Vasquez was established and almost year later by the Ordinance No.4 November 17, 1958 it was renamed by the municipality currently has Puerto Boyacá.

Puerto Boyacá has had a history of violence particularly in the Colombian context to suffer the scourge of violence first with the FARC and then self-defense and paramilitary groups. In the 70s and 80s the town had a strong influence of the FARC Communist Party (one of the fronts of the Eastern bloc led by alias "Mono Jojoy") and factions of the Liberal Party, which some of their leaders mutated partners and supporters in a social state governed by self-defense groups (formally emerged between 1965 and 1968, when two legal texts-the Decree Law 3398 and subsequent 48- laid the legal foundation that helped create civil defense organizations).

Given extortions and excesses of the guerrilla, with whom at one time he sympathized, ranchers and landowners decided to rethink partners face order to defend their interests against a hated organization. Many farmers and ordinary citizens, amidst the guerrilla, paramilitary and military fire were stigmatized as guerrilla collaborators, executed, tortured or disappeared, in a campaign of destruction and barbarism towards elevate Puerto Boyacá in the nineties as the