 Pedro de Añasco was a Spanish conquistador, sent by Sebastián de Belalcázar to found a village in the territory of what is today Timaná, in order to create a trade route through the Magdalena Valley.De Añasco called all the indigenous leaders and demanded them to pay him a tribute.A tribe of Yalcón people, commanded by a young man and his mother ("cacica" Gaitana) delayed the payment, and De Añasco decided to set an example by ordering her son to be burned alive.