class="apple-converted-space"> In late
1534, Francisco Cesar made the second
raid and called Balsillas this area, because of the amount of swamps and flood
plains that surrounded the region. Don
Alonso, in his first foray overland to Sinu pobladísimo found an Indian village
ruled by the cacique Tolú or Tulu, in what is now the town of Tolu old, which
is why he did not speak of foundation if not discovery, by could not be found a
town that was already established. That
happened in late 1535. Some six
years after this discovery the people, and joined the colonial administration
of the Government of Cartagena , was moved to the edge of the
Caribbean Sea with the name Santiago de Tolu, the other was known since then as
Tolu Viejo located east of Santiago de Tolu and about 20 km from the Gulf of
Morrosquillo, on the right bank of the stream Catarrapa, Pichilín today. In the year 1549 (July 7) definitively
acquired the title of town, it should be noted that Santiago de Tolu was the
first city founded in the present department of Sucre. During colonial times becomes
important as a gateway of agricultural products, mainly sugar cane grown in the
foothills of the mountains of Sincelejo. The
seventeenth century was the golden age of the town of Tolu. Heads sheets then called, for obvious
