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CONQUEST OF TARAPOTO
It began with the entry of the Spaniards in 1537, by the north of our region from Chachapoyas to Moyabamba. It was Hernando de Alvarado, with the support of cacique Huamán, who managed to dominate the natives of the area. -
COLONIZATION OF TARAPOTO
After the conquest continued the colonization directed and executed by the missionaries. Franciscans and Jesuits fulfilled specific missions.
During the colony, Tarapoto, together with Lamas and Moyobamba, served as a center for colonizing, religious, administrative and cultural irradiation of that time. Also as a nucleus of native exploitation in the obrajes, reducciones and as beasts of burden. Due to its strategic location, Tarapoto was the seat of colonization of the northern jungle. -
FOUNDATION OF TARAPOTO
It was founded on August 20, 1782 by the Spanish bishop Baltazar Jaime Martínez de Compagnon y Bujanda.
Its beginnings date from the explorations carried out by the Chancas, who when conquered by the Incas, led a revolution commanded by the caudillo Ancohallo.
They settled in the surroundings of the Suchiche Lake, where the Taraputus palm tree abounded, a name that the Spanish bishop would later use to found the city of Tarapoto. -
TARAPOTO IN THE DEPARTMENT OF SAN MARTÍN
Apparently, what Martinez de Compagnón founded, was not a city but a Curate dependent on Lamas. For the time of Tarapoto it was a small town of native residents mostly in the small town of Cumbaza.
Since September 14, 1906, the city is part of the department of San Martín. -
TARAPOTO NOWADAYS
Nowadays, Tarapoto is a cheerful city, with beautiful and well-kept forests, a city that is the main tourist and commercial axis of this part of the north-east of Peru. A city that we all want to preserve.
