History of Sonsón

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Sonsón Municipality was founded on Agust 4, 1800 by Don  José Joaquin Ruiz Zapata, judge villager, a resident of the city Rionegro,  with seventy-seven people. initially he called San Jose de Ezpeleta Sonsón in honor of patron saint San Jose and viceroy Ezpeleta.