The oldest document that mentions it was the first census of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata on 23 November 1778, with a resulting population of 220 inhabitants.

[1] This hamlet was known as Villa Arroyito, and was the place chosen by the Spanish soldier José Ignacio Urquía to build a church dedicated to the Virgin of Mercy, completed in 1790.

Baldassare Dalle Mura and Raffaello Bianchi, both Italian immigrants from Tuscany, were the owners of the two most important sawmills of that time.

But the Great Depression directly attacked the raw material that sustained the sawmills, so they had to close, giving rise to emigration and decline.

The dream was to offer consumers around the world quality products at a fair price became true on 5 July 1951 with the opening of the first candy factory.