Some early reports of the town can be found in chapter 9 of Pedro Cieza de León's Crónica del Perú (1553).

There are scheduled launches to two towns without road access, Capurganá and Acandí, across the gulf and near the Panamanian border.

The town is as close to Panama as one can get by road from the south, and serves as an impromptu staging ground for migrants attempting to cross the Gulf of Urabá to Capurganá, and from there by hiking through the Darién Gap into Panama, en route to the United States.

The number of migrants arriving exceeded the capacity of the ferries across the Gulf of Urabá, causing extended waits for a free seat.

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