The word Betijoque is derived from a word Indigenous identified as betit-snoppa Which means place where there is or there is a fire The story derives from a cacique named Pitijoc or Four sticks. Until the 17th century it was an indigenous village And it works as a parish in the year 84 of the aforementioned century The tribe of the Escuqueyes stationed in the estates of Betijoque It gives rise to the doubling in an indigenous ranchería that took the name Pitijoc, lands that were distributed in encomiendas to the conquerors The courageous Régulo Pitijoc (Four Sticks in the Cuica language) is evoked By 1539 the conquerors dedicated themselves to looking for a land route May he lead them comfortably and on the shortest path to the high Andean mountains. This tenacious labor took them to the coast of the great Lake Coquivacoa. They arrive at the Betijoque region heading south On the way to Ponemesa, cross the La Laja hill and sight Sabana Free, they go down the hill and head towards Trujillo looking for other lands This same route, 150 years later, would be used by the French pirate Francisco Esteban Gramont de La Mote in his looting and looting from Gibraltar to Trujillo between September 16 and 30, 1678 Those primitive aborigines congeners of what was constituted A tiny village of five or more families, sheltered other And after several years they form a small town. In 1729, the Raids by the ferocious and unfriendly Motilones Indians who They prowled the lower areas of the lake, making them leave these places The geographical location strategy, the nutrient virtues of the land and the Benevolent climate, makes those settlers return and rebuild the Town, three years later The elevated position of height above the flat lands allows them to Observe far away and dominate any riotous attempt Or filibuster trying to get closer. Some authors agree In that Betijoque was in principle the obligatory royal road between the lake And Trujillo and that it was populated on its shores until it formed a ranchería Indigenous that later becomes a people