History of San Pelayo

In its individual news Don Antonio de la Torre y Miranda wrote: "On the island (Sheba) forming the two channels of the Sinu River between Lorica and Cereté on the banks of pipe right I founded the site of San Pelayo, and for comfort that river traffic to the benefit of these lands and swamps and containment of Darien Gentiles. "

San Pelayo still in the eighteenth century was under the immediate influence of Cienaga Grande, with many channels and streams, characterizing the area as very muddy.

James J. Parsons in his book "The American and Tropical Regions" was referring to the climate and fluvial sedimentation in the valley of Sinu : "... is the main structural depression in the middle of the tertiary hills parallel development and widespread north and northwest. "

Then he says, "has a humid tropical climate enough to maintain a high forest, luxuriant, and semi-deciduous to stay in the less disturbed situations despite a marked dry season during the first months of the year."

In the region where is located the Municipality of San Pelayo was an extraordinary wealth of flora, fauna, water and soil that has been considered the most fertile in the world.

Don Jaime Exbrayat Boncompain in his history of Monteria says, "the first settlers were almost all Spaniards, whose descendants still live without mixing some scattered in numerous villages in the region called" The Guamas ".

It is likely that the first settlers were