History of Chinu

So to get the expedition of Pedro de Heredia in June 1534 to the village of Finzenú, that could not be more amazed at the wealth and ordered his troops to loot gold from Indian temples and tombs. Chroniclers of Indian argue that this campaign took the Spanish hosts fabulous amounts of gold that spread such "an unhappy Pirú if the Sinu is discovered." Indeed Pedro de Heredia managed to rescue the territory Finzenú an amount of gold taken out higher than Hernán Cortés in Mexico or Pizarro in Peru. Pedro de Heredia gave the name of that town Chinú an apparent voice of indigenous origin, although it is unclear if this original village was located where today the city sits Chinú header.

However, Pedro de Heredia Spanish was not the first to travel the region. Chronic suggest it was the issue of Alonso de Ojeda and Martín Fernández de Enciso , in 1510. they overcame the near Rio Sinu and fought the Zenúes without success. Not until the 1530s Pedro de Heredia could reduce and conquer