History of Riosucio

Reservation called "Lomaprieta." Checkout the original title, get new possession of their lands on November 4 d 1,722 by the Mayor of Anserma, Juan Jimenez Gamonares, by the Viceroy Jorge Villalonga. middle of the eighteenth century The Mountain Quiebralomo and simultaneously invaded an area of Lomaprieta. They went on to dispute this and although it was initially Cattle by The Mountain. Quiebralomo managed to appropriate it, and mortal enmity between Quiebralomo and pleaded Mountain. This could only be settled when the time of Independence their respective parish priests José Ramón Bueno (native of Popayán) and Jose Bonifacio Bonafont (native of El Socorro, Santander) achieves rum to join in a process of moving the foot of Ingrumá conflict in the area d. On 28 November 1814, residents of both villages met and signed a memorandum of agreement to relocate.

In 1815 the town of Mountain started to move, giving rise to the Plaza de la Candelaria, whose layout: The streets made ​​of Judge Venancio Alvarez Mayor Joaquín Ramírez. In 1.81S began to move Quiebralomo village square and forming the San Sebastian area, drawn by the German engineer John Frederick Bayer. So our traditional founding date, it can be assumed on 7 August 1819 as the day he officially completed the transfer being completed Quiebralomo the basics of urban complex of the city. Quiebralomo districts and Mountain were merged into one under the name "Ríosucio" by the Decree of 17 June 1846, taught by Dr. Jose Laureano Mosquera, governor of the province of Cauca.

This decree took effect on 1 July 1846. Is this because the date of erection Ríosucio ate municipality. In the decade of 1850 the Antiochian immigration began around Riosucio, which had hitherto been purely Cauca region; It was a phenomenon outlined since the decade of 1820 during the beginning of the