Its origins date back to the Indian village that between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries was taken place numerous times by the encomenderos, ranchers and planters. Throughout this long period, people were losing their land. The current location of Pomaire dating from 1771, when the last transfer. You may find this date, some specialization pottery, thanks to the presence of clay-rich mines and dissemination of this activity in the area(and surrounding Talagante Melipilla) . However, the characteristics of this pottery village with an Indian heritage and a peasant past seem to have strengthened since the second half of the last century, when the cacique Juan Bautista Salinas, at the suggestion of Mrs. Castro Remigia Montana, his wife of origin Spanish, begins to encourage villagers to develop ceramics to sell in Valparaiso, in Cardonal Market .
Since 1853, ceramic caravans traveling to Valparaiso before Easter and then go to the sanctuary of Our Lady of Lo V�squez, for the celebration of the pure. Also made pottery for food barter.
Over time the old farms were subdivided into small plots, changing the face of the people with a new concentration of homes. Agricultural activities in the village are extinct, only surroundings are exploited vineyards, vineyards, avocado and limonales. Urbanization Pomaire transformed into a pottery town and today is the mainstay of Pomaire families.
In the present era the pottery has become one of the economic foundations of the town
