Talk:San Andrés de Cuerquia

History

In the days of its foundation, next to a river called San Andrés in this region, the neighborhood of this district was inhabited by Nutabes Indians governed by the Cacique Guarcama, very mentioned in the chronicles of the time, and warrior also remembered for his Fierceness and ability for business.

The conquering adventures of the Spanish captain Andres de Valdivia had impelled him to subjugate this zone of the Antiochian north, and it was as well as he arrived at this territory to the control of his troop in the year of 1574. Valdivia entered in combat with the cacique Guarcama and lost the life wildly at the hands of it. His head was displayed on logs for a long time, next to the heads of several of his soldiers. The then Governor of the Province sent as a consequence to the region an enormous army that ended up massacring the tribe of Guarcama in view of the technological superiority - not in boldness - of the Iberians.

Upon the arrival of the Spaniards, these lands were occupied by high-ranking caciques between the Nutabes and Tahamis.

At the time, the region was visited by Captain Don Andrés de Valdivia, the first governor of the province of Antioquia, who organized an expedition to the middle course of the Cauca River. The Spanish captain Don Bartolomé Sánchez Torreblanca indisposed the natives against the Spanish ruler, who was killed by the cacique Quimé in the year of 1576. The place where the events took place is called La Matanza.

Passed very few years after the death of Valdivia, Don Gaspar de Rodas applied a fierce revenge on the part of the Spanish kingdom and all the natives, especially those of the Valley of Guarcama were exterminated without mercy.

The governor of the province of Popayán adjudged these lands to the Spanish officer Don Francisco Lopez de Rúa in the year of 1582, who founded a town in the Guarcama Valley where Valdivia was killed, which he named San Andrés de Cauca in honor of the murdered captain and the waters that pass near the place.

On January 25, 1793 there was a fire that had burned the whole town, losing its importance, since it was the obligatory passage to Mompóx and the Atlantic coast. In this place the parish of San Andrés was created, in the year of 1761. In the year of 1822 it already had the category of municipality.

On June 13, 1853, he was transferred from the Guarcama Valley to the current site. At the time of the beginning, it was named Cuerquia, for honoring the name of the "Cuerquías" tribes, native natives of the narrow slope of the San Andrés River. However, the story tells that the first name at the time of the transfer was called Chalcedon on the initiative of the wise Caldas and then; in 1860, Pabón was named in honor of the governor who gave the transfer ordinance. The provincial chamber of Antioquia gave the ordinance 11 of November 14, 1854, which they assign to the head the name of Pabón and not Cuerquia. But, shortly afterwards, as a reward for its history, it changed definitively by the name of San Andrés de Cuerquia.

Messrs. Baldomero and Pedro José Jaramillo, natives of Rionegro, sponsored by Pbro. Domingo Antonio Angarita Mendoza, were the founders of this new town in the year of 1853, changing its name and place. In 1856, it was given the category of Municipality. At the beginning of the last century, San Andrés de Cuerquia had recovered much of its former importance, thanks to the fertility of its hillsides very conducive to all types of crops. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gustavo2g (talk • contribs) 20:55, 13 February 2018 (UTC)