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History of Clemencia


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The origin of Mercy is in the division of the territories near Cartagena de Indias in 1704; the current territory of the municipality was given to the priest Juan Dominguez and inherited by his family; the late eighteenth century the land was acquired by Bernard Grau, who after the War of Independence gives their titles to his daughter Maria Clemencia Grau. Because it is during this time that the small settlement is consolidated, the name "land of Clemency" is generalized. Oral sources indicate that this young woman walking every afternoon in his magnificent white horse walking the land in her
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