History of Puerto Wilches

1870 - 1880 - Between 1870 and 1872, was founded the village of Bocas del Rosario. The contract between the State of Santander and Robert Joy for the construction of a railroad from the port walls to Bucaramanga (Girón or Piedecuesta) celebrates and initiates the work the Engineer Abelardo Ramos. 1881 - 1882 Puerto Wilches name is adopted to identify the point or place of removing the railway line and by Law 41 of 8 November 1882 stands as Puerto Wilches corregimiento

1887 - 1908 - Puerto Wilches was elevated to municipality, a condition that could not keep its sparse population; but then recovered in 1908, when they were incorporated the villages of El Pedral, Montecristo, Bocas del Rosario, Vijagual and Choco.

1920 - It is important river port on the Magdalena River, together with the rail transportation conducive towards the great commercial activity Santanderes region and north-eastern region of the country.

1971 - 1985 - The region was incommunicado via spoolable with the capital of Santander and the rest of the country, despite an order from the Ministry of Public Works since 1916 ordering the satellite passage Papayal - Bocas del Rosario , it appears established in the road map of Colombia in 1971, signed by the Minister Virgilio Barco Ramírez; but only in 1985 the residents of: Badillo, Guayabo, Vijagual, Bocas del Rosario, San José de los Jets, Simití, Santa Rosa, roads achieved with District 15 road, get a bulldozer to lift the bench between Santa site Catalina - Bocas del Rosario.