History of Suaza

proved many times between 1637 and 1662 against the Spaniards attacked the Villa with fire, burning the church and houses. . Because two of these attacks to the site they christened The Burned, settlers had to build a new near La Quebrada Seca, grow site where municipal urban center. The site was political-administrative character indigenous reservation , and Ward was called San Francisco de la Ceja Andaquíes Guaduas Painted, locality in which coexisted peacefully settlers and native Indians.

In 1721 , the capitulation Melchor de Losada ordered in his will that the current land Suaza a chaplaincy Mass and perpetual memories were founded. The task was entrusted to the interim chaplain Fray Miguel de Caviedes . The chapel dates from around 1738 , as one of the oldest games viceparroquia Baptism, which rests in the second book of the parish Timaná file corresponds to February 21 of that year. The town grew around chapel and plaza. Later it was turned into viceparroquia no fixed or stable priest authorities. With the growth of the village church and civil authorities Suaza rose to the rank of parish and town.

Between 1739 and 1823 the Viceparroquia Suaza depended Timaná Parish. Between 1823 and 1842 the Viceparroquias Suaza and Guadalupe were integrated to form the Parish of Our Lady of Guadalupe. The town was founded in 1748 by Helena de Valderrama with the name of Houses Burned o Burned, several meters south of the current localization. Finally, in 1842, Suaza was separated from that church to be ordained as an independent parish. The first pastor was Father Innocent Delgado.

The first colonists who settled on the region following the channels of Suaza River , and Dry creeks, Satia, Singa and Emaya, were under the authority of the military Juan Jovel de Losada . Jovel de Losada