La primera referencia a una ermita con culto mariano en esta zona data de la primera mitad del siglo XIV y se encuentra en el Libro de montería de Alfonso XI, en que se menciona una "ermita de Sancta María de la Rocinas". En 1587 Baltasar Tercero Ruiz funda en la ermita una capellanía, y a mediados del siglo XVII cambia el nombre de Santa María de las Rocinas a Virgen del Rocío.
El Rocío is a village located 15 km from the municipality of Almonte, in the county of El Condado, province of Huelva, Andalusia. It celebrates an important Marian pilgrimage, the Romería del Rocío. The village has 1513 inhabitants, although during the pilgrimage of Pentecost the number of visitors has reached the figure of approximately one million people.
The first reference to a hermitage with Marian worship in this area dates from the first half of the fourteenth century and is found in the Book of Monteria de Alfonso XI, which mentions a "hermitage of Sancta María de las Rocinas". In 1587 Baltasar Tercero Ruiz founded a chaplaincy in the hermitage, and in the middle of the 17th century he changed the name of Santa María de las Rocinas to Virgen del Rocío.
