The Indian Catalina is one of the indigenous characters in the history of Colombia. Belonging to the Calamarí ethnic group, she was one of the richest women in Cartagena de Indias. During the period of the Spanish colony in the current department of Bolívar, was evangelized, established order and close relationship mainly with Pedro de Heredia. Catalina was abducted in 1509, when she was 14 years old.
The chroniclers Fernández de Oviedo and Juan de Castellanos, who in one of his trips sent two men for an "Indian language" or "Indian translator" from the language of origin to Spanish, counted. Catalina would return to her lands in 1528 with Pedro de Heredia from Madrid when she was approximately 30 years old as an interpreter, thus achieving the pacification of numerous indigenous tribes.