Sotachiro

Sotachiro is associated with the Nutabe inhabitants of the Valle de los Osos, in the highlands of northern Antioquia. Local accounts place a possible Indigenous settlement of that name near the headwaters of the Guadalupe River. Spanish governors Andrés de Valdivia and Gaspar de Rodas visited the valley in the sixteenth century, but it remained sparsely settled by colonists for a long time. Gold later drew settlers into the surrounding highlands.