Year from 1570 to 1606, the regions that
are south and east of the town of Rovira today was the scene of great and
tremendous struggles between native place which forced Pijaos Captain Diego
Bocanegra to the founding of a town as a measure for the submission of these
people. So in 1570, on the lands of Chief Mi-Ara-Ka, the conquerors Montealegre
Felix and Juan de Dios RodrÃguez Pedro Marroquin and founded a town they called
Miraflores.
In 1853, he was elevated to district by the
Provincial Chamber of Mariquita and confirmed on 13 October 1887 by
