History of Sachica

for 1757 was reduced to 22 tributary Indians, 177 farmers and 38 Spanish or Creole families with a total of 136 people. The total population had fallen to 336.

In 1954 during the government of General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla was built the road between Villa de Leyva and Tunja. In the architecture of the colonial type predominates Sáchica fortunately samples of modern architecture are very slim which has made ​​the historic charm of the area is preserved. In 1955 the representation of the Holy Week began with live actors in Bogotá , with the passage of time the people took the papers and all the actors are now sáchiquenses.

In 2008 the Church of God Ministry of Jesus Christ International opened in the municipal seat a prayer room, colonial style, which added to the Festival of Sacred Music which gathers national and international bands, and sculptures alluding to the sun and Moon as a tribute to the gods of the Indians, to ratify Sáchica as "The Jerusalem of Colombia ".

Sáchica has one crop of olives oldest in the world, with about 130 years of being planted.