History of Morroa

These measures surtituirán effects on America from the year 1600 and particularly favors Morroa Indians, who are assigned their land guards, later confirmed by the hearers users of Villabona Juan (1610-1611) and Joaquin Vargas Campuzano (1675), especially the latter.

Indigenous people today dwelling Morroa municipality belonged to the Carib linguistic family (finzenues), of which inherits the current population of Morroa crafts. Morroa soon became a center of great economic activity where the Spaniards saw the opportunity to make a quick fortune, to achieve the goals they had set established their businesses, plantations, and began working full exploitation of the native element . This development reached by Morroa in so little time, it became a conglomerate of some importance, since the year 1684 the presbyter Fray Juan Gallegos saw the need to decorate the parish of this population with a painting to summarize the foundations of Christianity. For the time; the population today was the seat of Spanish Morroa families surname Dominguez, Narvaez, Salcedo and the fact of being elected ecclesiastical parish priest and have an assigned indicates that it was a center of some importance. Morroa was elevated to the category of municipality by ordinance of October 27, 1855 issued by the honorable assembly department of Bolivar , and Administrative Act. In the year of 1928 a deputy from the neighboring town of Corozal presented a draft ordinance the assembly of Bolívar Municipality Morroa down to the category of village of Corozal. This project is handled behind the village so there was no opposition on October 28, 1928 was approved by the legislative body, the people reacted angrily; for he saw in that ordinance an injustice and ignorance of the history of Colombia by the Legislative Corporation, since although did not get a great urban development got its municipal only 36 years after the