Founded in 1540 on the banks of the River Magdalena, Mompox played a key role in the Spanish colonization of northern South America. From the 16th to the 19th century the city developed parallel to ...

Santa Cruz de Mompox, located in the swampy inland tropics of northern Colombia’s Bolívar Department, was founded about 1539 on the Magdalena River, the country’s principal waterway. Mompox was of ...

The Minister of Culture of Colombia informed the Secretariat that on 5 March 1998 a fire occurred in the centre of Mompox which affected part of a building block north of the Plaza de la Concepcion.