History of Tasco

class="apple-converted-space"> , Tasco and Taba (the latter village, is believed to exist along the Chicamocha and disappeared), Father Manuel Contreras, who was the first pastor, and the November 28, 1602, Father Fray Juan Velasquez.

In visit practiced by Mr. Juan de Valcárcel, Judge of the Royal Audiencia of Santa Fe in 1635, it was decided that the Indians of Tasco straight into the town of Socha and pay tribute to his encomendero. This law was useful for Indians were age 17 to 54 years old, those charges should be paid in the months of San Juan and Christmas, with gold, chickens, seeds, blankets and other. "The fife" was another tribute to the Royal Crown intended, taken from what the Indians received encomenderos.

On April 19, 1681, the corregidor Gámeza Party, Captain Antonio Fernando Penaloza said land for shelter, community and pasture of 37 Indians he found in the town of Tasco. Witnessed this signaling Falcon Bartolomé de Fonseca priest and vicar of the village and the Socha, Pedro Carvajal