The news of the origins of Cartajima are scarce, but according to the testimony of Diego Amaya, one of the town’s elders, when they were laying a foundation in Las Peñuelas, human remains appeared, where the head rested, some coins. This event is written in the town’s chronicles, and the finding is interpreted as possibly being a burial from the Phoenician-Hellenic period.

Apart from this news and any other legend such as the rich Moorish woman, there are no other facts about Cartajima´s history. A history, which could have been closely tied to the presence of Arabs in these lands and to the vicissitudes which ran their course through all the towns in the area during the Reconquest, the expulsion of the Moors and the Christian repopulation.

During the War of Independence, Cartajima was distinguished in the fights against Napoleon’s troops, In 1814 Cartajima was named a Village by Fernando VII, at that time Cartajima had a great economic flourishment, thanks to the cultivation of vines and the explotation of iron sites in the municipality, which gave origins to a small factory specialized in the production of canons. This situation of splendour was named the "Cádiz Chico"

Cartajima is located on the top of the Genal river. It is on a Height of 846 meters on the level of the sea, it counts on an anual average Precipitations around 1.288 L/m2 with an average temperature of 13.8 ºC. And there is 2.700 hours of sun each year.