At the time of the conquest, the Knight of the Order
of Santiago, Don Fernando de Mier y Guerra, born in Spain, motivated by the
desire to colonize by the Iberian homeland territories Colombians rush starts
against the Indians Chimilas lived right arm Mompox in the Rio Grande de la
Magdalena, an area that extends from the Bank to the point known as "Boca
de Pinto," as it pertains to today erected new municipality of Santa
Barbara Pinto.De Mier y Guerra did his best to
extinguish and subdue the Indians by the excesses caused as a result of the
