The village is of pre-Hispanic origin. He
ruled a Cacique, a tributary of Tunja Zaque ¨. Founded in 1537 by Gonzalo
Jiménez de Quesada (two months after the founding of the capital of the Viceroyalty
of New Granada or Bogota ) who after arriving with more than 500 men on his
expedition in search of emeralds Somondoco founded the Villa Hispanic. Its
natural were evangelized by the Dominicans, from 1,556. Years later the
Dominicans in the process of spreading the Catholic religion evangelized Ramiriquí
Miraflores and belonging to the town of Tibana.
