sentences:  Covarachía is bordered by the Chicamocha River and the territories to the east of the town were inhabited by the Lache people.The Muisca were the people who lived on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense before the Spanish conquest of the Muisca in the 1530s.Modern Covarachía, called Ricaurte between 1858 and 1869, was founded on February 10, 1823 by Juan Zámano and Felipe Pérez.