this
issue Chimilas decimated by Indians, aborigines.
Also
note that Ambrosio Alfinger year 1,531 out of Maracaibo and determined to get
to the valley that is close to the Sierra Nevada, after subjugating how many
indigenous people was his came to the region Tamalameque step, putting into
practice his bloodthirsty methods of looting, destruction and extermination of
indigenous culture.
The
Bachelor Don Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada authorized by the Governor of Santa
Marta Fernández de Lugo, some 1,536 in the year to discover the headwaters of
the Rio Grande de la Magdalena, reaching Tamalameque hundred and fifty men
after being shipwrecked.
Anyway,
to illustrate some of the confusion regarding the foundation of the town
transcribed.
To
definitely be on the site where now stands, in the collection of Indian Laws
states that Jimenez de Quesada as transfer to a site called Bearded (...).In
1544 Captain Manjares establish it again against Mompox in a place called San
Judas Tadeo of the Palomar Portaca-today-and in 1680 the father came Céspedes
Barthelemy Balsera or move him forward to the beautiful savannas Chingalé (...
) with the name of Nuestra Señora del Rosario and San Miguel de Las Palmas de
Tamalameque
