Donation of Count Gundesindo Historical milestone · Merindad de Sotoscueva, Las Merindades, Burgos Image of Merindad de Sotoscueva, not of the place itself. In 816 Count Gundesindo handed over lands of Sotoscueva to a monastery, sixteen years after a resettlement charter of the year 800 gave the first written notice of the valley, which in 860 entered the county of Castile. 816 Photo: Eliana Alvoz (CC BY-SA 4.0) What to see and do in Merindad de Sotoscueva