Most residents of Wadi-Talaulim are originally from Salcete’s villages of Loutolim, Colva, etc. Nearly 80% of Talaulim's residents can trace their roots to Colva alone. During the initial years after the Portuguese conquest of Goa, many of the residents of the villages of Salcete (which was a part of the Velhas Conquistas) shifted to Talaulim, to escape religious persecution and the mass Christianization of Goa. Wadi-Talaulim also has residents from Canacona, who shifted here many years after the Velhas Conquistas for a variety of other reasons.