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Guasca is a town of pre-Columbian origin, therefore, it is not fair to say that it was founded by a Spanish dignitary. Before the arrival of Christopher Columbus to America, the region where the current Municipality is located today was inhabited by the Muiscas, an indigenous ethnic group, who spoke the Chibcha language, now extinct. The Indians (name given by the Spanish to the inhabitants of this Continent, since at first they believed they had reached India) belonged to the territory dominated by the Cacique de Guatavita, of which the Cacique de Guasca was a lieutenant.

However, it has been written that the municipality of Guasca was founded in the month of June of the year 1600 by the Oidor of the Royal Audience Mr. Luis Enríquez and repopulated on October 7, 1639 by the Oidor Mr. Gabriel de Carvajal. This is stated by the Secretary General of the Academy of History of Colombia, Roberto Velandia, in his ´´Encyclopedia Histórica de Cundinamarca´´. However, after reviewing the documents cited by Velandia, nothing indicates that they are aware of any act similar to a foundation, in both cases they were simple short visits made by these Oidores with the aim of forcing the Indians to live in a single point next to the doctrinal chapel, which is far from a true founding act. On the contrary, after reviewing the chronicles and the different documents of the National Archives, what can be proven is that Guasca, like many of our current towns, already existed at the arrival of the Spaniards, even with almost the same limits between them that Today they are preserved, given the jurisdiction of each chief.

The town initially had as its center La Capilla de Siecha, but later it moved its doctrinal and administrative activities to where its urban center is currently located. It was built a Parish in 1778.





Guasca is a municipality in the Department of Cundinamarca, in the Guavio region, fifty kilometers northeast of the city of Bogotá D.C.



It limits to the north with the Municipality of Guatavita, to the East with the Municipality of Junín, to the south with the Municipalities of La Calera and Fómeque and to the west with the Municipality of Sopó.



It has an average temperature of 15º Celsius and is at an altitude of 2,700 meters above sea level, located between the cold and paramo thermal floors.

As found in the Chibcha grammar of Fray Bernardo de Lugo, printed in 1619. Guasca, is a name of Muisca origin:





Places of interest

Church of San Jacinto

Central Park

Hot waters

Lagoons and Chapel of Siecha

Big house

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