Felipe II grants its jurisdictional independence, to pass, later, to be erected in marquisate, recovering its independence in 1735.
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According to records from a monk named Agustin de Vetancurt, the monastery was authorized in 1557 by of Joanna of Castile, sister of Felipe II.
The city was founded on March 5, 1714, by Juan Gregorio Bazán de Pedraza, with the name of San Felipe de Borbón del Valle del Bastán in the fields of Guarnipitán, as a homage to the King Felipe II.