The territory now occupied Necoclí, before
the conquest of America and the first Spanish settlement on the mainland was
inhabited by the Caribs, a warlike people with great skill in the use of bows
and arrows who practiced cannibalism. Of these, made of various ethnicities and
provinces among which were those of Urabá, Urabaibe and Guaen who populated the
territory between Punta Caribana and the Atrato River.
The Urabaibes were absorbed by ozigana which stretched from Punta Caribana
Cayman to New; came to have a population of more than five thousand inhabitants
and