Exactly 249 years ago, Commissioner Antonio de la Torre and Miranda traced on the left bank of the Sinú River the first limits of what he baptized as San Jerónimo de Buenavista. He chose, with colonial pragmatism, the highest and firmest point of the riverbank. Today, on its 249th anniversary, Montería again fights with the same river that saw it born and does so with the same stubbornness with which it was founded. The hardest year in a century…
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Exactly 249 years ago, Commissioner Antonio de la Torre and Miranda traced on the left bank of the Sinú River the first limits of what he baptized as San Jerónimo de Buenavista. He chose, with colonial pragmatism, the highest and firmest point of the riverbank. Today, on its 249th anniversary, Montería again fights with the same river that saw it born and does so with the same stubbornness with which it was founded. The hardest year in a century…