HISTORY
Cali was founded by Belalcazar and his troops, who after a tedious wait was Belalcazar authorized by Pizarro to leave after exploring Valle del Cauca on his own, decided to found a town and he gave it the name of Santiago de Cali. Thus, on July 25, 1536, the feastday of the Apostle Santiago (James), Captain Miguel Lopez Muñoz, in the name of the majesty of Don Philip and by delegation from Sebastian Moyano, raised the standard and founded the city.
The new town, in the valley of Lili, perhaps took its name from the name of valley. Belalcazar did not perform the usual rites, which accompanied any kind of founding, nor did he designate a town council. Belalcazar ordered the first mass to be officiated by Friar Santos de Añascos to be celebrated on the exact spot where the community houses for lay sisters and the Pedro de Ayala and Anton Redondo were designated mayor and councilman. In 1559, the town months later, pursuant to the Royal Title of August 20, 1559, signed and sealed by Princess Juana of Portugal, it was declared the most noble and loyal city of Santiago de Cali.
The good fortune that accompanied the birth and the first few centuries of Santiago de Cali are not substantially different from that of many other cities in Colombia. Cali was considered more or less a base for operations, and it held onto that materially sought after end. In the early years the city was just a camp, which in boom times inflated to a population of five thousands and which served as a stop over for travelers enroute to Quito, Popayán or Santa Fe.
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HISTORIA
En la poblacion de Puna, a las puertas del imperio Inca, don Francisco Pizarro vacilaba asediado por las inclemencias del clima, la salvaje y primitiva naturaleza y la hostilidad de los nativos, cuando providencialmente recibio nuevos auxilios enviados por sus socios. Corria el año de 1532. Almagro y predrarias, pese a sus recelos y malicias, cumplian lo convenido y desde Nicaragua, para reforzar la conquista del Peru, llegaban un escuadron de hombres y dos capitanes: Hernando de Soto y Sebastian Moyano, llamado de Belalcazar, quien cuatro años mas tarde celebraria la fundacion de la Villa de Santiago De Cali.
Belalcazar decidio realizar fundaciones permanentes que sirvieran de puntos de referencia a la conquista ulterior del Dorado y por su cuenta y riesgo envio a Juan de Ampudia para que con un pequeño cuerpo de tropa se uniera en los pastos a Pedro de Añasco. Poco se sabe de los habitantes precolombinos de la ciudad de Cali. El valle y las sierras estaban densamente poblados por numerosas tribus que repartian su tiempo entre el trabajo y la guerra.
Las armas europeas tuvieron que librar una de las mas cruentas batallas de la historia de la conquista, en la cual tras un largo dia de refriega y penuria vencieron con altisimos costo de vida a las tropas de Petecuy. Belalcazar, luego de explorar por si mismo el Valle del Cauca, determino una fundacion y le asigno el nombre de Santiago de Cali. Asi, el 25 de julio de 1536, fiesta del apostol Santiago, el capitan Miguel Lopez Muñoz, en nombre de la majestad de Don Felipe y por de Sebastian Moyano, clavo pendon e hizo fundacion.
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