Cereté is one of the oldest administrative
divisions in the Sinú Region, founded in 1721 by Spanish Francisco Velásquez
and Cristóbal Jiménez de León. In 1731 the curate of Cereté-Mocarí was given to
jesuits who were in the process of evangelizing local indigenous peoples. The
settlement of Cereté was not officially established until 1740 when Juan de
Torrezal Díaz Pimienta reorganized the settlement into a village.
