We must bear in mind that the exact date It is not easy to establish its foundation; in First place, because in this place the cuicas already They had founded a city that awakened the Admiration of the first Spaniards who arrived To her; Second, because this population Indigenous was discovered in 1548 by Diego Ruiz de Vallejo, commissioned by Juan de Villegas, who thought To found a Spanish town right there, but Circumstances beyond his control prevented him from doing so Third, because between 1556 and 1558, Diego García de Paredes founded Trujillo here, who later It was destroyed by the Indians and, fourth and last Because in September 1559 Francisco Ruiz He rebuilt the city, named after his people Natal Mirabel, which, finally, returned to take its Aboriginal name of Escuque that, as its name says Name in the Cuica language, means Town of Clouds and that, as mentioned above, caused The admiration of the first Spaniards who arrived there The chronicler of the Indies Juan de Castellanos attests to this in The third Elegy of him, when he says that The houses of greatness so mighty So many and by such order and concert That nothing like this was seen Before this description of the Population had described the temple and Speaking of the image that was venerated in it Icaque was said and was a goddess What a bundle they had retracted In the house of three spacious ships Of great and minor frequented She made a generous party (At times and for days) marked