Before the Spanish arrived , the area was inhabited
by indigenous soracaes, family of Muisca , who were part of the chieftainship of
Hunza, dominated by zaque of Hunzahúa and termed CORACA or Mansion Regia.
The
region was occupied in 1537 by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada , who was the founder
of Bogotá . Soracá parish was elevated as
the October 7, 1776. Until 1954 it was considered
municipality, when it was converted into village of Tunja, a fact which was
