MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF NORTE DE SANTANDER

PRESENTED BY: KAREN VALERIA GONZALEZ

CODE: 1193418874

PRESENTED TO: DAIRO BERRIO RIVERA

UNIVERSITY OF PAMPLONA
FACULTY OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES
Bachelor's Degree in Artistic and Cultural Education

LITERARY EXPRESSION AND ORAL NARRATION

Cúcuta
2022
 MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF NORTE DE SANTANDER

MUNICIPALITY OF SANTIAGO

Santiago is a municipality located in Norte de Santander, founded by Ignacio

Camacho in 1742, the municipality is located in the central region of
department and nowadays has water sources like the Pedro Alonso river,
today Peralonso, tributary of Zulia that borders it to the east serving as a frontier
with the municipality of Durania. The area of this municipality is 173 km² and its
the total population for 2015 was close to 3 thousand inhabitants, Its economy is based
in coal mining, agriculture, tourism, and livestock farming.
COSMOGONIC MYTH
According to legend, he lived in the nearby municipality of Salazar de las Palmas,
a wealthy landowner named Ignacio Romero Camacho. Several days ago, Mr.
Ignacio would wake up in the middle of the night tormented by a dream, in the
dream, he was found only halfway to nowhere, and suddenly the ground began to
roar, a deafening noise that scared Don Ignacio, to the point that the sky split open
and a thunder whispered unintelligible things to him, by that point Don Ignacio Romero
woke up. Determined to seek an answer and taking advantage of a fair in the
city of Cúcuta, where he would sell livestock, decided to go visit the Bishop to
find answers. Along the way, some of the cattle I brought for
trade, they escaped from the muleteers who were bringing her and got lost among the
thicket of trees that bordered the path. Being in search of the
he separated from his group of employees and suddenly found himself alone in
a clearing on the edge of the precious Peralonso River, once there he heard the tinkling of
a little bell, Don Ignacio, attentively saw how a subtle mist began to envelop the
place, and suddenly an imposing figure appeared in front of him, a noise
Deafening filled the environment, it was the noise of his dreams, he fell captive to terror.
Before him stood a brown-skinned knight with a thick beard, who was dressed in a
brilliant armor, and he rode a huge Andalusian horse, on his left arm
he carried a shield and in his hand the standard of Castile and León, in his hand
right wielded a shining sword that pointed to the sky. - Do not be afraid I am
Santiago, one of the twelve who accompanied the messiah, I am the son of Zebedee, - Don
Ignacio Romero Camacho was lying on the ground, stunned and motionless due to the
terror that I felt. Do not fear, the knight repeated, I want you to give this land,
You build a church where my image is displayed, here a community will flourish.
where I am eternally revered... The landowner, regaining his color and
filling his interior with peace in response to those words, he asked about the origin of that
noise, The apostle smiled and said to him, - This is what the master told us, 'Boanerges' or sons
of the thunder, Go Ignacio and don't forget what I am asking you. That's how Don did it.
Ignacio Romero Camacho... and founded a Church and a town that Santiago, thus it
llama.
MUNICIPALITY OF SALAZAR DE LAS PALMAS

Salazar de las Palmas was pre-founded on October 27, 1561 and subsequently
destroyed by the chieftain Zulia of the Tribe of the Cineras in revenge for the death
from his father at the hands of the Spanish conquistadors, then in 1563 Diego de
Parada founded a settlement and named it Villa Nirva del Collado that was also
destroyed by the Indians three years later.
Finally, after bloody battles between indigenous people and Spaniards, the Indians
Guitarists were annihilated in the central area of the Department, they were given
the conditions for colonization in the territory of New Granada. The
Captain Alonso Rangel managed to have the Cell sent to him from the Royal Audience.
from February 27, 1582 to proceed with the "foundation of a city" the
what took place on NOVEMBER 4, 1583 and is named
Salazar de las Palmas is located 56 kilometers from
Cúcuta and its main tourist attraction is the devotion to the Virgin Mary through
the invocation of Our Lady of Bethlehem.
HISTORY OF THE VIRGIN OF BELÉN
According to history, at the foot of the hill of Trinity (Today Belén) inhabited in 1671
in a humble hut, a little Indian girl belonging to the Cineras tribe, who
she was very devout thanks to the missionary work of that time.

While washing in a nearby gorge, he saw how a torrent was flowing down a
a piece of cloth, she picked it up and placed it on a small altar she had in
his room to venerate the Mother of Jesus Christ. From there neighbors and onlookers
devotees and beneficiaries of countless miracles began their pilgrimage to the
site where an altar was built and then a chapel was constructed to allow access
to all the faithful.
LEGEND OF JUANA NARANJA
A woman named Juana lived in the region of Agua Caliente and was accustomed to
to wash their clothes at the foot of the well. One day, he observed with special surprise that over
the waters were carrying a huge orange that was emitting bright glimmers. She,
attracted by the fascinating reflection, she plunged into the waters to rescue the orange
enchanted. Upon making contact with her, Juana was led to the depths
from the well, where it still remains hidden.

Ancient legends tell that there were once two lovers belonging to
opposing warrior indigenous tribes. The loves of these young men were against the
wanting and stealthily from their respective chieftains; both were of royal blood and
their night appointments were made next to the edge of a wide well, point
intermediate between the borders of their towns. On a full moon night, they were the
lovers in amorous conversation by the well and the full moon portrayed its disc of
gold at the depths of the waters. The Indian woman asked her suitor to gift her that.
beautiful and sparkling disc that shone at the top. The lover not daring to
denying nothing to his love, he threw himself into the depths in search of the coveted treasure,
with such bad luck, that she never appeared again. The Indian woman desperate for her
tardiness plunged into the waters after him never to reappear again. It tells the
a tradition that, on full moon nights, a golden orange emerges from the well, is seen
to India crying and circling around her, struggling to reach her.

LEGEND OF THE CAVE OF A THOUSAND PESOS

One of the amazing legends known by the Salazareños is the one regarding the
cave of a thousand pesos. It is located in the La Loma neighborhood and, with a morbid
It is said that on Good Friday at three in the afternoon it opens and the
immense treasures that it holds in its depths blossom by enchantment and come out to the
surface for the contemplation of people. This whole legend has come to be
transmitting from mouth to mouth and from generation to generation.

It is assured that the cave is of immense depth. In the year 1908, a

expedition led by Don Rogelio Vergel, equipped with lamps
tools and weapons of all kinds managed to penetrate about one hundred meters, overcoming
grave difficulties and fighting against snakes, bats, and spiders that
were abundant everywhere. The expedition left as a reminder of that feat
a plaque that says: Rogelio Vergel and others 1908. The expedition members affirmed
that they had found indigenous cavities and vaults, numerous rooms
of stone and a hall with hieroglyphs.
Subsequently, in the year 1934, another expedition made up of several young people from
town among those who remember Rafael Escalante, Rafael Vergel, Fernando
Andrade, Gilberto Guerrero (patetranca) and others also penetrated her and
they managed to reach the site where the plaque of the expedition of Don Rogelio was located.
Vergel. They claimed that the mouth of the cave had narrowed, perhaps the same.
nature had taken care of it. They also left their marks on the walls.
names as a reminder of the feat accomplished for them.
There are those who claim that they are old shafts of an ancient gold mine.
exploited by the Spaniards during the Colonial period. According to some
historians, among them Dr. Luis Miguel Marciales Torres, this is the famous
my One Thousand Pesos that was discovered by the first inhabitants of Salazar de las
Palms and that helped sustain life, from a very precarious start, of the
inhabitants who were surrounded by the warlike Motilones and very distant
from Ocaña and San Cristóbal.
MUNICIPALITY OF LABATECA

Labateca is a Colombian municipality in the department of Norte de Santander,

in the northeast of the country. It is 113 km from the departmental capital, Cúcuta. The origin
the word Labateca is aboriginal, coming from the chitarotunebo dialect, and its
meaning is volcanoes of God. The population attained the status of municipality in
1930. To the north it borders the municipalities of Toledo and Pamplonita, to the south with
Chitaga, to the east with Toledo and to the west with Chitaga and Pamplona. A large part of the
municipality (more than 2 thousand hectares) is part of the Páramo de Santurbán, source
water management for Norte de Santander.

APPARITION OF THE VIRGIN OF SORROWS

The tradition had been weaving the history of a
India that found a canvas near a lagoon with an image that caught her attention
Attention. The canvas, placed in a spot to dry, was miraculously renewed.
after a few days and revealed the clear image of the Virgin that
now they worshipped in the village.

LEGEND OF THE CONE

One of the characteristic legends of this municipality is the Cona, which was a
woman who lived in this place, she suffered from mental disorders and from there
her aberrant actions, the cone lived alone in a secluded place in Labateca and
they say that he had too many children, but they did not count on the misfortune that
Upon birth, she killed them, thus many years passed and one casual day...
they found such a massacre, the number of children was too high, to the Cona the
They were going to judicialize, but it was impossible since he had mental disorders.
therefore the deaths went unpunished, until she passed away, they say
inhabitants that at night, can be seen walking through the streets and their
The thunderous crying is of such magnitude that it would scare anyone, and they say that it...
and wander through the streets wrapped in flames, seen from afar it looks tiny but each
once it approaches, it becomes gigantic and behind it follows a long line of
pigs on fire of whom one could say were their murdered children.
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Myth of Santiago:
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Information about Labateca:
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