History of Ovejas

chief authority imparted to others under chieftains who ruled in the above populations, this territory Indian was first visited in the year 1509 by the Spanish Martín Fernández de Encizo as recited in his chronicles. The political organization of these villages was deteriorating; the last leader who had the chiefdom was Tarra Tarroy. With his disappearance decays organization.

A few years later comes the Spanish colonial influence being the first; the colonizer Antonio de La Torre y Miranda and Doña encomendadora Matía Gonzalez and Galapagos. Which, with other Spaniards proceeded to populate the territory of the Zenú creating "Parishes white" while organizing herds and farms adjacent to and influenced the indigenous people, taking advantage of its inhabitants as their weakened the organization is allowed.

Spaniards established in this region formed in Cartagena population center of this region. The Spanish expanded throughout the region; settling in Majagual Caimito, in the year 1770 and coming this way to Catarrapa, Don Gabriel Mendoza, Don Manuel Gonzalez and Doña Matía Gonzalez and Galápago ruined, exercising the powers granted by the Spanish Crown to their colonizers, such as: The exploitation of land and indigenous slavery in favor thereof.

Returning to the Spanish Crown medieval institution established the encomienda system because of the power they exercised over the Indians, who were working for their farms using mechanisms of exploitation and obligation. And this is how truly Cata born hacienda system being the most important: "The Sheep" Galapagos and Don Gabriel; which largely constituted the root of the birth of villages composed of sharecroppers, day laborers, who constitute the exploited human capital, which made possible the agricultural and livestock