According to literature reports
(Sanchez, 1984), the Municipality of Thessaly is Pijaos descendant of
indigenous origin. Its
history dates from 1600, when the Spaniards made the first forays into the
lands of Banyo (Thessaly), heading towards Popayan, found a fence that
corresponded to the Pijao tribe, led by Chief Dura, who flees to detect its
presence leaving two old Indian women who could not do it and filled a pigsty
or poultry duhos Indians, of the tribe of Tamas, who were fattening to eat them
in
