San Miguel is a town and municipality in the Santander Department in northeastern Colombia. The town was founded January 28, 1763 by …San Miguel is a town and municipality in the Santander Department in northeastern Colombia. The town was founded January 28, 1763 by Nicolás, Miguel and Margarita Suárez, who were brothers. Territory bordering between laches, chitareros and musics, later, of the foundation of Pamplona, valley of the balagula, seat of stays, cañaduzales and traps that made it deserve the name of the valley of honey. Later, in 1657, the visitor Diego de Baños y Sotomayor determined to annex the Valle de la Miel and the Balagula to the doctrine of Carcasí, naturally those who were least attracted to that perspective were the inhabitants of the Valle de la Miel, for which they were headed and those represented by Don Miguel Palencia, a non-influential landowner of the place and did not arrive at the archbishopric of Santafé in an application for a license to be administered in the ecclesiastic in his own chapel of Balagula. As the prosecutor of the archdiocesan curia was of the same opinion, on April 27, 1657 the provisor of the archbishopric of Santafé Lucas Fernández de Piedrahíta, authorized the foundation of the parish that the neighbors and residents of the Valley of the Honey, the Balagula and Buena Vista, under the invocation of San Miguel, in consideration of its promoter Mr. Miguel Palencia. A short time later, in 1762, with a solid church of lime and ornamental singing and with the chapel of the humiliator, the residents of San Miguel were encouraged to consider the coexistence of choosing their own parish. Finally, on August 11, Messi de la Cerda approved the new foundation in its capacity as Vicepatronato. And from 1870 by decree of President Salgar the municipalities in 1857 were renamed parishes, the administrative and territorial reorganization emanating from the constitution of 1886, restored to San Miguel the rank of municipal district from September 1877.
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