Tame, Arauca
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Tame is a town in the Arauca Department of Colombia
Extension: 5.300 km²
[edit] History
The region was explored by the German conquistador Jorge de Espira in 1536.
There he encountered several Indian tribes from the Arawak family - Arauca, Caquetio, Lucalia, Girara, Chiricoa, Cuiba, Guahibo and Achagua.
Tame was founded by Alonso Pérez de Guzmán on June 12, 1628. He also founded "Espinosa de las Palmas" nearby, for civil spaniards .
I was destroyed a few years later, and Pérez de Guzmán and his soldiers killed by the Girara Indians of Tame in revenge for slavery treatment.
