The foundation of Iquira

 It was in the year 1694 by order of Francisco Martinez de Ospina who gives the name of San Francisco de Iquira a town built in what is now known as the alley, just are the territories of farms El Carmen, La mestizo and San Mateo. Its first inhabitants were the Paez Indians on suspicion of a possible attack by the Indians Pijaos decided to move the town to the site it occupies today to be high ground, with a strategic position to spot the enemy. So it is given the name "High mountains" as meaning that primitive voices gave the word Iquira. In order to spread the Catholic faith among Aboriginal parents in 1656 the Franciscans founded a center of teaching and imposing St. Francis as its patron. In l672 the captains Francisco Perdomo Betancourt, Francisco Trujillo and Castro, Alfonso Montealegre and others, tried to raise the village to the category of town with the name Iquira Alley. This attempt is unsuccessful why the town was abandoned as did the Spanish in all people who did not accept his whims.

by: Oscar Andres Quimbaya Ramirez (10-02)