[5] In 1537 conquistador Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada and his troops arrived on the Bogotá savanna.

It was gradually repopulated by people from Bogotá, and was host to some fighting during the war for Colombian independence.

It was re-founded as a municipality in 1846, and in 1860 it was the scene of a battle between government troops and Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera.

On December 31, 1978, the guerrilla group M-19 took the military base called Cantón Norte, robbing the arsenal.

The Country Club's polo area was acquired by the District and transformed into a metropolitan park for northern Bogotá.