This northwestern region of Colombia was inhabited by the Cuna Indians and
for them was the "land of chili" or Capurganá in their language. The
Cuna inhabited until the early twentieth century when they were displaced by
settlers from black-mulatto coming from the city of Cartagena. The natives
migrated to the archipelago of San Blas (Region Kuna Yala) in the neighboring
country of Panama. There, the Panamanian government had reached an agreement
with the native population by creating a semiautonomous region where the Cunas
exercise their own authority.
Capurganá remained unnoticed on the map until the 1970s
