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By this time the Spanish conqueror
Jose Fernando de Mier y Guerra
was ordered to "pacify" the
Chimilas
indigenous groups and to reorganize
some villages in the basin of the Magdalena river. These foundations and
re-foundations were approved back then by
José
Alfonso Pizarro
viceroy
of the
Viceroyalty of New Granada
between 1749 and 1753. In 1753 the
Spanish ordered the construction of houses in Aguachica and was made part of
the Government of Santa Marta.
Between 1798 and 1804 a plague swept most of the population causing
the village to move to its present location. In 1914 became a municipality.
Republicanism
