The ethnicity of Aboriginal CatÃos,
ancient inhabitants of this region, fought fiercely against the Spanish to keep
their belongings. Reliable records indicate that it wasVasco Nunez de
Balboa the first conqueror to arrive in the early sixteenth century . It
is well to mind the importance it had in this region and in general throughout
the southwestern Antioquia an Indian chief named Tone, driver
remembered indigenous leadership knew, but then succumb, fierce battles against
the Iberians, and with whose name there baptized dozens of towns and
settlements
