Guayabal de Síquima

Guayabal de Síquima also known as "The Golden Gate of the Central Magdalena" is a municipality and town of Colombia in the department of Cundinamarca located in the Central Magdalena Province at 69 Km of Bogotá.

The principal Town is located at 4°52’52” North and 74°28’10” West, there is ina zone called Western Zone of the Eastern Mountains, which is caracterized for their sinuous mountains.

Guayabal de Síquima limits by the NorthEast with the municipality of Villeta, by the west with the municipality of Bituima, for the north with Alban and by the south Anolaima

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History

Guayabal de Síquima was founded in 1721 with the assignation of the Father Luis Calvo Vasallo like parish priest of the town. This way begins the construction of 22 houses of Bareque and 5 of mud wall stepped around the Principal Park.

In the year of 1739 Guayabal de Síquima was divided in four big zones CHINIATA named in honour of an ancient Indian leader or Cacique, EL TRIGO (THE WHEAT) being this region where this grain was cultivated for the first time; RESGUARDO in memory of which the natives called "Muizane", that means refuge or defense, and MANOA in memory of an ancient "cacique" of the region