History of Ubala

of snowy loft ...." wrote 41 years ago the diligent historian Don Joaquín Acosta Ortegon, who in fulfillment of its medical health profession, that wrinkled walked Cundinamarca region that was definitely one of the most populated before the arrival of the Iberians in these virgin lands of overseas culture.

Ubalá was part of a considerable number of prehistoric Indian villages in the region, much of which disappeared for various reasons especially epidemiological nature. The Spaniards found Indian settlements as I pause, Siatala, Tuala, Zaque, Cusio, Guavio Juiquín, Chusneque, if Sueva Mámbita and most important of Ubalá ran with mixed luck and were virtually wiped out by the circumstances noted. Of these there are only benchmark veredal the two last: Sueva and Mámbita. In the late eighteenth century, the old Ubalá but his name was not because those who lived had migrated to the prosperity of the neighboring towns. Around the same time came a dreadful epidemic of smallpox and yellow fever struck rigorously Mámbita few uncontaminated whose inhabitants decided to move to where he rose Ubalá giving it new life.

Joaquín Acosta has the resurgence of our little corner had continued good wishes in their primitive settlement known as "Old Town", if not for a tragedy of passion and succeeded trim occurs: around 1845 lived in the resurgent Ubalá a woman named Catalina Rojas, Celedonio Urrego married, however his marriage, such Catalina became infatuated with Pedro Daza, who decided to leave, leaving her lawful husband. So, in revenge, Celedonio decided to punish with death his rival, who by then held the position of mayor and, taking advantage of a dark and dim the help of two of his brothers, one of whom was disguised as a woman the edge of the Quebrada Grande, near the bridge where Daza used to spend every evening towards his