History of Supia

year 1674, speaks of "The Heirs of black gangs Supía de la Vega, who asked the council for permission to work Anserma Cauca river sands." The settlement of blacks Guamal, which still exists, dating from 1749, when Don simon Pablo Moreno de la Cruz, Deputy Governor General and Chief Justice of his Majesty, buy Dona Josefa de Borja and Franco, widow of Maestre de Campo Don Nicolas Becerra, a right to mine in Vega Supía to Salado callers plus twenty-five (25) pieces of young and old slaves, a banana plantation to own land, your house, plus tools and implements of the mine in amount of 6,612 plantains. The above two entries are the first references to slaves in Supía. Anyway from very recent foundation, slaves were used to work in the mines. The stabilization and as a community, is thus of 1.749.

DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE: This town is the only Grand Caldas, which is present in the beginning of the deeds of Independence. His act of rebellion occurred on 28 November 1813, when the house of the priest Joaquin Velarde, a group of notable declare cease to belong to the Governorate of Popayán dominated by the Spanish, and are appended to Antioch had just held its independence. The secretary of the meeting was Liborio Mejía Prócer Antioquia. The statement is signed by Gervasio Francisco Lemus, José María Gutiérrez, Pedro García Velarde and the priest himself.

MESTIZAJE: The greatest fusion of races in what is now the department of Caldas, due to occur in Supía given the presence of the Indian, the subsequent arrival of black permanently settled in their land and stay for half a century and from different European the Spanish. These families left wide descent, we: Rischter, Branch, Eastman, De la Roche, Gartner, Henker