Simiti

Simití stands beside a wetland bearing its name, west of the Magdalena River in northern Colombia. The region was inhabited by Indigenous people before Spanish arrival. Accounts associate the colonial settlement with the expedition of Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada and commonly date its foundation to 1537, although the precise date and circumstances are uncertain.

Colonial records discussed in the local historical account mention encomenderos at Simití and a boundary dispute in 1611. The settlement formed part of the wider Magdalena river country, where waterways linked communities to routes through the interior. In the early nineteenth century Simití belonged to the province of Mompós.