Yaporox

Yaporox was an Indigenous chief in the Magdalena valley at the time of the Spanish arrival. His country lay around the site of the later town of Purificación, on the river in Tolima. Sebastián de Belalcázar reached the region in 1538, when Yaporox was remembered as its ruler. The Spanish town came much later: Diego de Ospina Maldonado, captain of the province of Neiva, formally founded Purificación in 1664.