extended to the territories now
forming the departments of Córdoba, Sucre and Bolivar.
Upon the arrival of the Spaniards, the maximum existing
indigenous authority in what is now Toluviejo, was the chief Tulúa, that this
name originated from the tree "Ceiba Tulúa" by the sight of power,
authority and grandeur.His dominion extended
over the neighboring territories as Tolu, La Piche and Warsaw, governed
respectively by his sons Tulúa the new, the Piche and Toad.
According to the Academy of History Department of
Bolívar, since the seventeenth century, is considered Toluviejo Town or
administrative political entity, its first Lord Mayor Mariano Alviz
