Mahates

Mahates lies in the low country southeast of Cartagena, near the waterways linking the Magdalena River to the Caribbean coast. Pedro de Heredia established a settlement there in 1533 among the Indigenous inhabitants of the district. In the seventeenth century the Canal del Dique improved the connection between Cartagena Bay and the Magdalena. Mahates stood beside this route, where river traffic, wetlands and cultivated lands met.