Studies and research on our indigenous past are still
in their infancy, there are only approaches and assumptions based on
interpretations of the records left by some writers and settlers who came from
the mother country. Most of them assert that we are descendants of Indians
belonging to the family Chimilas Carib language that inhabited the extensive
river and lake region of of the departments of Bolivar, Sucre, Magdalena and
Cesar. The highest regional authority was in the Chimilas Mompox and her chiefdoms:
Maguey, Yati, or Simacoa Tacaloa, etc. Guazo. Our indigenous ancestors had an
average
