style="mso-bidi-font-style:italic">Jalapa '
, dominating indigenous to the mouth
of the Magdalena River.
Its
discovery by the
Spanish
colonizers
came in March 1533
when
Pedro de Heredia
found the settlement of
Mocanás
, Indians mixture
Caribbean
and indigenous to the area.
Like other indigenous peoples, was
given in
encomium
in 1600 to Nicholas De Barros and
later to Peter De Barros, son.
The
indigenous people of the region offered no resistance to European colonizers,
and this resulted in a coupling that would result in the creation of a
livestock economy.
Thanks to this
background Galapa municipality is known as a creator of artisan baskets and
masks that also has a large livestock population, and they are currently
undertaking the construction of large-scale industrial zones in the township.
The town
itself was created by Act 37 of 1873
