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The natives of the town of Chopo, today Pamplonita, were entrusted to Captain Juan de Maldonado, according to the Royal Decree of February 22, 1550. This information was obtained from the documents that rest in the parish archive and provided by the priest Juan Pabón Lizcano. Tradition says that it received the name of Chopo, in memory of the chief ´´ Chepo´´ and that it was given by the doctrinaire fathers to the Indian parish of that region.

The commission of Juan de Maldonado was succeeded by those of María de Velasco and, later, those of Cristóbal de Araque and his heirs, who administered this town and established their ranches, farms, and agricultural and livestock activities with the usufruct of labor. indigenous.

In a study by the historian Silvano Pabón on the town of Chopo, he says that: ´´ In 1559 Don Cristóbal Bueno, a Spanish visitor, counted 447 tributaries that with their families made a population of approximately 1500 people. Then, in 1560, another visitor, the lawyer Tomás López, left instructions to the encomenderos and doctrinal friars to populate the indigenous community in a settlement in the Hispanic way, ´´ giving plans to make blocks, streets and squares´´. Within the framework of the same, a hut will be built for the church and another for the prison, the chief and captains of the town would be located, forming with the others a ´´population´´, which would be administered in ´´ things and the Holy Catholic Faith´´.





Full Name: Pamplonita

Foundation: 1550.

Founder: Juan de Maldonado.

Population: DANE 2005 Census: 4,792 inhabitants

Altitude: 1,725 ​​meters above sea level.

Extension: 179 km2.

Climate: 19 ° C.

Distance to Cúcuta: 63 Km.

Geographic coordinates: Longitude west of Greenwich 72º 39´, North latitude 7º 26´

Limits: North: Bochalema and Chinácota,

South: Labateca and Pamplona,

East: Chinácota and Toledo,

West: Bochalema, Cucutilla and Pamplona.



Administrative Division: Composed of a municipal seat and 22 sidewalks.

Rivers: Pamplonita and the La Tescua, Las Isabeles, Santa Ana, Corral de Piedra, Santa Helena, Pica Pica, El Hático, Batagá, Llano Grande and Cimitarigua streams.

Region: South Western

Economy:

Agricultural production: potato, citrus, sugar cane, morón, pea and beans.

Livestock production: Cattle, horses, pigs, rabbit and poultry.

Mining production: coal.





Holidays:

Employers in honor of our lady of the Rosary

Farmers' Day

Easter

Music, string and voices festival



Tourist sites:

Parish church

Potosí Bridge

Monument to Christ the King

Borrero Cave

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