History of Tolu

Tolu area, as a collection and distribution would control an important area of ​​coastal trade, is influenced in the late seventeenth century by the coming of the black slaves who occupied the farm labor in the area also Santiago Tolu has become the epicenter of all expeditions to the Sinu, Darien, Panama and other areas of influence.

This prosperity attracted the greed of pirates, mostly British, who attacked the village many times and preferentially stays and farms located on the shore of the sea, from the bay until Acandí Barbecue and the present border with the Republic of Panama.The intensity of these attacks was so great, that many encomenderos and rancher decided to abandon their property and move to Mediterranean areas safe from the incursions alluded. It was devastating among others, the English attack in 1658, reaching the hostile forces to the site of San Jose, Swimming Pool, near the present town of Corozal , leaving burned in Tolu, the parish church and