History of San Juan Nepomuceno

According to the archaeological remains found in the region that this site was inhabited in very ancient times by indigenous culture groups called Malibues belonging to the great family Caribbean, they left us as a cultural legacy use bejuco Malibu, used to build houses and pens. Vivian in a period known in Colombian American archeology as Paleoindian Archaic, whose main features are: collecting fruits and roots, making a rustic ceramic zoomorphic recordings. These remains indicate the first Indian settlements in Colombia and are located on the northern coast of the country, dating back to an age of 400 to 1000 years. C. San Juan Nepomuceno was founded during colonial times, on August 10, 1776, by Antonio de la Torre y Miranda, when she reached the valley of the carretos bringing with him the first families from pool (now Corozal) and San Benito Abad, these families were made up of 120 people. The May 11, 1779 the limits and minutes of possession of Egidos and districts of San Juan and San Cayetano before the clerk of Carmen protocolizaron was declared a municipality in 1870. Population becoming a regional marketing center was then organized