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Founded date: March 10, 1542

Founder's name: Captain Jerónimo de Aguayo

Historical review:

The Spanish conqueror HERNAN PEREZ DE QUESADA in the year 1539 when he came in search of the “house of the sun”, he discovered the “valley of the fences”, so called because the Chitareros Indians, the first settlers of the region, surrounded each of its huts with reeds or sticks. Later they gave it the name of "valley of tequìa"



Founded by Captain Jerónimo de Aguayo in the province of Quebradas de Tequia, on March 10, 1542



Malaga was called to be the fourth city of the New Kingdom of Granada, the struggles for the governance of the New Kingdom aroused between its discoverer Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada and the legitimate heir of the Government of Santa Marta, Don Alonso Luís de Lugo, led to the latter ordered its destruction in 1544



In 1691 the captains Francisco Sotomayor Fauste and Melchor de Villa Negrón initiated negotiations with the Santa Fe Curia to establish a parish in the old seat of the city, where, in order to facilitate the project, the priest Tomás de Ayala had donated half a stay of land owned by his brother don Juan de Ayala. Once the approval of the archbishopric was obtained, Luís Martínez Ochoa, on behalf of the promoters of the parochial erection, requested the Tunja mayor to order the necessary congregation of the residents in the room donated by the Ayalas, to proceed to configure the urban layout. For this purpose, the magistrate commissioned Captain Lorenzo de Rojas Camacho, who on January 8, 1695, gave the residents of the new parish the peremptory period of four months to configure its urban layout by building their dwelling houses, church, priest's house and jail, which initially was to serve as a butcher shop. Thus, in May 1695 the material foundations of the parish had to be laid, under penalty of a fine of fifty patacones



On May 9, 1695, the captains FRANCISCO SOTOMAYOR AND MELCHOR DE VIÑA NEGRON gave the name of "Villa de San Jerónimo and Nuestra Señora de la Soledad de Málaga" to this beautiful, cultured and welcoming city of which we are part as natural inhabitants or adoptive. Malaga means QUEEN in Phoenician, therefore the capital of the province is called Queen.



On April 28, 1835, the Court of Malaga was created under the Court of San Gil. On May 11, 1834, the Diocese of Pamplona was created with Jurisdiction over the Parish of Malaga.





The territory of the Municipality of Malaga is located on the Eastern mountain range, geologically it is located at the southern end (eastern edge) of the Santander Massif, in the southern part of the Almorzadero páramo

Limits of the municipality:

Geographically, the municipality of Málaga shares boundaries through geographical accidents (rivers, streams, edges, watersheds) or property boundaries with four municipalities in the Province of García Rovira.



For the East: With the Municipality of Enciso

For the West: With the Municipalities of Molagavita and San Andrés

To the North: With the Municipality of Concepción

To the South: With the Municipality of San José de Miranda

Total extension: The total area of ​​the municipality is 58 km2

Urban area extension: where 4.87% corresponds to the urban sector, that is 2.82 Km2

Rural area extension: 95.13% corresponds to the rural sector, that is, 55.17 Km2

Altitude of the municipal seat (meters above sea level): The Municipality is located at an altitude of 2,235 meters above sea level

Average temperature: average temperature is 18º C

Reference distance: The distance from the capital of Santander, Bucaramanga, is about 160 kilometers

Agriculture, as a generator of income, employment, food, which allows the maintenance and sustainability of the capacity and food security of the population of Malaga. Within the transitory or temporary crops we have the case of fickle beans, bush beans, bush beans interspersed with corn, fickle beans associated with corn, corn, table tomato, potato, blond tobacco and pea, mainly, although there are small areas and not the The most important economic activity in the city of Malaga is focused almost exclusively on the commercial sector, prevailing over the representative sector dedicated to barley, wheat, and vegetables. Within the existing livestock activity in the Malaga area, the bovine milk breeding line occupies an area of ​​approximately 3,730 hectares in pasture and a population of 1,537 heads served in 858 farms of producers, mostly medium and small farmers. The existing races correspond to crosses of Creole by Norman, Norman, Creole by Zebu and Creole. From the socio-economic point of view, the impact of production is very significant because milk and meat are essential foods in the population's diet and the importance of this line lies in the fact that milk allows producers to obtain a permanent flow income throughout the year and also capitalize on the value of meat production. From a bovine population, estimated at 1,537 dairy cows, in production they generate income of 3,458,250 million for milk / day (7.68 tons). The pigs are especially important in the farms of the Municipality because they are the farmer's piggy bank due to their resistance to diseases and ease of “recycling” organic waste from the leftover food used by man. The predominant breeds are crosses with Ladrase, York Shire and Pietrain. In recent years, the Creole pig has decreased due to the presence of improved breeds that have a good price and are more productive. A year 547 pigs are slaughtered in the regional slaughterhouse of Malaga. Poultry farming exists as a family farm, where the production of eggs is intended for self-consumption, leaving some surplus for trade, so generally rural farms located below 2800 masl, maintain small farms (between 6 and 10 hens) estimating at Existence of 10,110 Creole birds in the 856 rural properties, these birds each reach an average of 5 pounds that are sold at 2,500 pounds in live weight. In semi-technical farms there are 3,100 fattening birds that reach between 3 - 4 pounds to 2,000 pounds in carcass, in the course of 2 months. In semi-technified laying there are 4,200 birds that each produce an average of 300 eggs that are marketed at a rate of 4000 cartons of 30 eggs. Creole eggs that are marketed are 22% higher in value than those from semi-technified poultry. Creole birds provide about 50.5 tons per semester of live meat valued at 126,375,000 at a rate of 12,500 live birds valued in trade at 168,000,000 million per cycle. The most common lines in chickens are Indian river Arbor acress, In red Lohman birds, leghorn and in Creoles, Indian river criollas, sex line and Cartago (saravia). In the following table the other species of less importance but that contribute to the Municipal annual livestock production are registered.

Communication channels

Aerial:

From the city of Bucaramanga there are daily charter flights.

Terrestrial:

It communicates with Bogotá and Cúcuta by the central north road. From Bogotá it is approximately 9 hours, and from the city of Cúcuta it is approximately 7 hours by public transport.

And with the city of Bucaramanga on the road that passes through the municipalities of San Andrés and Guaca, the journey is approximately 6 hours by public transport.

River:

The municipality of Málaga has a water network belonging to the Servitá River Sub-basin, which flows in a north-south direction and receives the contributions of several streams that flow in a Southeast direction. The municipality's medium rainfall allows all the drains that make up the water network to have constant and intermittent flows.





Tourist sites

The caves of the Calichal village, Peña Lisa, waterfall and bubbling well in the Calichal village. Indigenous cemetery in the village of El Alizal.

Monuments

Monument "Custodio García Rovira" which is located in the institutional square of Malaga presents in his right hand a parchment that symbolizes the chair and culture, his left foot takes a step forward in honor or representation of the hymn of Santander, the base pyramidal represents the three sister provinces of the north, Gutiérrez and García Rovira.

The statue with its base was made by the master Gustavo Gelvez Torres.

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