History of Riosucio

The first Spanish to set foot on our land was the conquistador Sebastián de Belalcázar, who came from Peru. In late 1538, the conquistador Juan de Vadillo, who came from Urabá, going by the confluence of the river with Imurrá Supía put it the name "Dirty River" by the winter mud then dragged. The name was extended to the surrounding region and the city that would later be based. On 20 January 1540 a group of Spanish settlers led by Ruy con¬quistador Vanegas, the priest Camilo Pinzon Tuft and Cequera and mining Miguel Morón riosuceñas settled on land to achieve a subsi¬guiente year. Found the Real de Minas de Quiebralomo, which soon became the richest in the country at that time, and was a slave center where the imprint of the black race is perpetuated. In the late sixteenth century was established Royal Mountain Mines, which were taken the Turzaga, mining indigenous tribe of the current Anserma Umbra. While the three communities in the basin of the rivers and Aurría Gold, were gathered in a farming village called "Our Lady of Candelaria Mountain".

The March 15, 1627 the Magistrate Lesme Espinoza and Sarabia gave these Indians of the Reservation Mountain, and (22 the same month gave land to a group of Indians brought d Sonsón industry in the Province of Weapon (South of Antioquia and North Caldas) as had belonged to Zopías would then become as San Lorenzo Ward d. Moreover, the Magistrate took their lands in present Bonafont to Pirsas, I Umbras that had been brought from the current municipality Anserma, and I give them land in the Vega de Supía. Soon after, date unknown, they were allowed to leave the Vega and attached to another ethnic group Anserma, that of Cumba, founded f people "Cañamomo" and gives them the