Calzada's decisive victory meant that entire northern line of defense had collapsed landscape, as well as clearing the path for his advance to the republican capital at Santa Fe.

Calzada's goal was to pivot north and captured the important cities of Ocaña and Pamplona which would clear the road to the capital Santafé de Bogotá by the time Morillo's forces would come marching down after taking Cartagena.

[7] Despite escaping total destruction, Calzada's forces had suffered some 200 dead and around 300 captured and missing as a result of the battle, nevertheless he continued his invasion, pivoting northward and crossed the Cordillera Oriental of the Andes through the Chita Pass into the Tunja Province with aims of marching towards Cúcuta.

Based on this information, the Governor of the Pamplona province Fernando Serrano and the commander of the army of the union in Cúcuta; General Rafael Urdaneta attempted to intercept Calzada at the Chitaga river and defeat him there.

They were unable to stay long as the spanish troops were close behind them, forcing Urdaneta to retreat to the provincial capital of Pamplona at 11pm that same night, arriving the next day to the city.

Urdaneta and governor Serrano then abandonded the city on November 26, and headed for Matanza, taking with them important documents and weapons to prevent their capture by the Spanish.

[10] Urdaneta's defeat at Bálaga and the capture of Pamplona by the spanish shortly after, now meant that any republican force north of the city had their communication and supply lines cut off from the rest of the country.

Colonel Francisco de Paula Santander along with his veteran 500 fusiliers of 5th Line battalion of the union who was based in Ocaña, as they had attempted to liberate Mompox from Spanish control were now left stranded as result.

[11] There he was able to meet up with Brigadier General Custodio Garcia Rovira who had been named commander of the Army of the North, from there they would attempt to defend the main route that led to the capital of the United Provinces.

After defeating Urdaneta in Bálaga and having captured Pamplona, Colonel Sebastián de la Calzada wanting to rest his troops after their long march, decided spend the months of December and January in the city where his army grew to be around 2,200 men in total.

Seeking to lure them out of their advantageous position, Calzada conducted a feint march north towards Ocaña, as he had received word that royalists troops were approaching that city.

Despite this, Rovira was emboldened by this small victory and decided to commit all of his forces in the offensive ordering that the army march from Piedecuesta to Cachirí where he would make his stand.

Seeking to deny Calzada of his supplies he ordered that Colonel José María Mantilla take a battalion to intercept them which deducted a sizable number of troops from his army.

8 days later on February 16, Rovira and the bulk of the army were finally positioned the Páramo of Cachiri, where they would defend the road that led to Bucaramanga and the Socorro province.

Rovira was confident in his defense plan, however his second in command Colonel Santander protested, as he believed that using such strategy with such novice troops who were in the majority armed with lances due to a lack of muskets, was a risky endeavour.

Meanwhile Calzada who had been expecting reinforcements from the Spanish troops marching down south, received a force of 300 cazadores from the Victoria infantry regiment, chosen among the best of the best expeditionary battalions under the command of Captain Silvestre Llorente.

With the fog lifted Calzada was then able to observe that Rovira had formed his troops in three defensive lines on the slope of the hill, behind them was the main house of the Cachirí hacienda.

Encouraged by this, they passed the river and began to climb the hill in whose foothills the republicans had placed a hidden battalion that ambushed the Spanish conducting a volley fire on that killed twenty men and wounded many others.

Republican leaders fled to Popayan, but were again defeated at the Battle of Cuchilla del Tambo on 29 June, which put a definitive end to the First Republic of New Granada.