History of Santa Cruz de Lorica

Santa Cruz de Lorica had until mid-twentieth century economic importance based on its location north of the Sinu, then navigable river and its proximity to the sea, the regional port to the old department of Bolivar, the mandatory step to that crop and livestock mart Cartagena was the Sinu Valley.

By building the backbone of the West, uniting the interior with the coast, Lorica lost its relative importance to be only in the field of low Sinu, but his story would be reflected in a mix of traditional families in the capital and immigrants bolivarense Lebanese, coming from the late nineteenth century to the thirties, and an architectural style that blends the Republican with the vernacular and the Moorish, Andalusian and Arabic mixture.

Santa Cruz de Lorica stood out as a town with great commercial and social movement with the Sinu River as the first important road and port Lorica as the first which came all cargo and passengers from other localities, a boom occurred in architecture to be the landowners in the region, tasteful people assimilating the advances in this field were happening in other cities, like them Syrian-Lebanese immigrants trying to build their properties with great splendor.

Santa Cruz de Lorica is home to two major Colombian writers, Manuel Zapata Olivella and David Sanchez Juliao .