History of Caimito

around a full lagoon vigorous vegetation were following signs reached one link they called Hato Miller. But the scarcity of water, forced the slave Mario to continue exploration of the territory to return with the good news.

So, as the June 24, 1607, at dawn, Hato Miller left to stop after half a day's journey before an immense swamp surrounded by secular trees, the joy was justified as one of the settlers, using his skills as a sculptor, recorded in the trunk of a tree Caimito picture of San Juan Bautista; being and their founders to be called this city of San Juan Bautista Caimito.

Among the descendants of the early settlers and the advance of Heredia, who inhabited the town, it should be noted families and Avilés Abreu and Manuel and Santiago Arráez brothers who encouraged in this land cultivation and livestock, leading to the traditional livestock vocation of the region, for which no evidence left of regal colonial mansions, and other vestiges of the colony, only the language, religion and certain folk customs