History of Santa Barbara de Pinto

existed, until today that populated municipality of Tamalameque Cesarense for this reason Genecco Pava Rangel believes that the province or country of Pocaby was from that town to Pinto, near the mouths of Tacaloa, possibly was the limit of the province of the lands Chimilas in Villa de Tenerife.

For 1741 there is talk of a people Pintaos, saying its location. Parallel to this information left by chroniclers and travelers on the river, which at the time was in full swing and the foundational campaign fundamentalist Don José Fernando de Mier y Guerra, Knight of the Order of Santiago, founder and refounding of peoples in ancient Chimilas territories occupied by peoples and their descendants, the Sondaguas, Pocabuyes, Malibúes and Pinto. Pinto, former center of the Chimilas - Pintaos, maybe that was named, was a point where the Spaniards to raise and lower goods suffered any number of rounds. This situation made De Mier y Guerra pick arrochelados neighboring villages in the province of Cartagena, especially Tacamocho and settle in Pinto.





Its revival began on December 4, the day of Saint Barbara - 1750 to 2000, 250 years birthday - the year in which belonged to the town of Tenerife, hence its initial name was SANTA BARBARA PINTO, name with which is currently identified.



For 1751 the town had 30 neighbors, 124 souls and many black slaves. The priest who assists the spiritual is the same Santa Ana, but 1787 had its own priest, the priest Ignacio Perez.



The impression of many travelers enter the