History of Santo Tomas

class="notranslate">As is Santo knowledge Tomas was not indigenous settlement and does not appear related to the conquered peoples in the geographic space tierradentro by Pedro de Heredia in March 1533, however found some remains of pottery and utensils in-part western town (Barrio El Carmen), and in the place known as Loma Grande, but the results of tests with carbon fourteen are unknown, so we can not affirm or deny the existence of small pre-Columbian groups since earlier times prior to the Cologne, this region was inhabited by Indians Mocana, descendants of the Caribs, being a center of economic, cultural and social development Malambo Region.

It has two versions of the founding of Santo Tomas, the first based on oral tradition, that Santo Tomas de Villanueva was founded by Francisco Miguel Becerra in 1706. The second, based on existing historical documents in the Archivo General Nation, which allows rebut the oral tradition to be document dating from 1681, which refers to the existence of several rooms and free sites or farms or neighboring in northern Tierradentro Party (now the Department of the Atlantic) and between Santo Tomas de Villanueva or near the banks of the Magdalena River appears. Also in colonial times sometimes hosted the captaincy Tierradentro war party. The founding document of the General Archive of the Nation gives us the impression that St. Thomas must have been founded between 1589-1681.

The town population was erected in 1857, according to the National Law June 18 of that year.