Valdivia is a town and municipality

Municipio

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 in Antioquia Department

Antioquia Department

Antioquia is one of the 32 departments of Colombia, located in the central northwestern part of Colombia with a narrow section that borders the Caribbean Sea. Most of its territory is mountainous with some valleys, much of which is part of the Andes mountain range...

, Colombia

Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...

. Part of the subregion of Northern Antioquia

Northern Antioquia

Northern Antioquia is a subregion in the Colombian Department of Antioquia. The region is made up by 17 municipalities.-Municipalities:* Angostura* Belmira* Briceño* Campamento* Carolina del Príncipe* Don Matías* Entrerríos* Gómez Plata* Guadalupe...

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History

Valdivia was inhabited by the Nutabes people upon the arrival of the Spanish

Spanish people

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 colonists. In 1849 Spanish Pedro Vasquez acquired the land and cultivated the area, bringing labourers from other regions of Antioquia, that eventually began exploring and exploiting other land nearby. On February 5, 1892 became a corregimiento part of the municipality of Yarumal

Yarumal

Yarumal is a municipality in the Antioquia Department, Colombia. Yarumal was founded in 1787 as San Luis de Gongora. Municipal status was granted in 1821. The current name of Yarumal comes from a local plant belonging to the Moraceae family, known in botanical Latin as Cecropia peltata L...

. Braulio Berrio was named its first Corregidor. In 1912 the Assembly of Antioquia segregated Valdivia from Yarumal assigned more land to its territory from other municipalities and made it a municipality.