History of Talaigua Nuevo

class="apple-converted-space"> in the 1530s. However it seems that the first Spanish to master the territories of this area were Alonso de Heredia and Mr. Santa Cruz, who in 1540 founded the neighboring town of Santa Cruz de Mompox .

He was initially granted Encomienda being his first encomenderos Don Hernando de Medina and Antuan Perez. In the eighteenth century became Indian Reservation , in the province of Cartagena. During the nineteenth century the indigenous territories were occupied illegally by settlers mestizos and whites and had disappeared by 1900 and the receipt, but today survive indigenous dances and customs. Near the village settled in colonial slave some estates, either dedicated to the cultivation of sugar cane and cocoa, as the vogue of the river descends from these farms black and mestizo population of the village.

The village was located where today Talaigua sits the village of Old Talaigua until 1840, when effects of flooding by the inhabitants relocated there, the leader of this relocation was