Gioro

Gioró was an Indigenous settlement associated with the later town of Lloró in Colombia's Chocó. It lay in the upper Atrato country, where the Atrato and Andágueda rivers connected forested settlements. Local historical tradition places the arrival of Pascual Rovira y Picot in 1674. In that account he encountered an existing community, subsequently associated with the colonial name Villa de la Inmaculada Concepción.

The same local history remembers conflict as part of this encounter. Mistreatment by Rovira provoked an Indigenous rising, from which he escaped. Colonial mining later drew upon enslaved labour in the district. These memories connect the place with both Indigenous occupation and coercive forms of colonial settlement and work. The name Gioró also survived in accounts explaining the later name Lloró, sometimes as the name of an Indigenous chief. The exact derivation remains a tradition, but it preserves an association between the riverside town and people who inhabited the country before the colonial foundation story began.