History of Pinillos

geographical location on a floodplain largely Pinillos Township is surrounded by swamps. Its climate is tropical warm with average temperature of 32 ° C. The Pinillos economic activities are agriculture (cassava, plantain, maize, rice, coconut and mango), livestock (20 thousand heads of cattle) and fishing. Their roads are drivable through the dikes along the Magdalena River. Currently you can get to the districts on a motorcycle, in summer time. During the winter and floods communication is through rivers, creeks and swamps that run through the municipality.

The people of Pinillos was founded on the banks of arm Loba on October 23, 1842 by José María Porto, Baltasar Rangel, Francisco Alfaro and Thomas Gil, who came to the front of a wave of peasant settlers from Mompox and elsewhere the momposina depression. The fledgling town was given the name 'New Town' and lots and streets drawn by a surveyor barranquillero surname Ruiz. Pueblo Nuevo grew quickly managing to be erected into a parish in 1846 by the then Bishop of Cartagena, Juan Fernández de Sotomayor and Picon. The January 1, 1846 Bishop Fernández de Sotomayor sang mass in place and proposed name change by Pinillos, in honor of the philanthropist Pedro Martínez de Pinillos, founder of Pinillos Colegio de Mompox and who met while he was a priest of Mompós early nineteenth century.

Pinillos Parish grew increasingly so was elevated to the District on October 23, 1848 by the Provincial Assembly Ordenaza of Mompox . For 1851 Pinillos had 526 inhabitants, twenty years after they had multiplied to 2042 inhabitants in 1881 and 4233 the town was naturally Pinillos Francisco Manuel Obregón, three times Governor of Bolivar .

The Municipality of Pinillos also consists of the header, with 24 districts and Armenia, Buenos Aires,