History of Campoalegre

300 years Campoalegre not exist as a town in the regional context center, being replaced in office for population Otas village of indigenous origin, founded in the colony by the Augustinian community to indoctrinate Native family Tucano .

Throughout its existence the city has grown as a result of an evolutionary process that responds to various socio-economic, political and religious situations that shaped its urban form and shape.

During the last years of the colony during the republic, the urban area was expressed creating physical forms as street races and connecting the old and the new poles or neighborhoods further development.

The August 14, 1809, the founding of the city is made and given to start construction of the first urban elements that formed the center Campoalegre, which in its original layout developed around the main square, today's Park Founders, forming a clear orthogonal grid as a checkerboard or chess, of Spanish origin, and obeyed the rules given in the Laws of the Indies, which ordered the new foundations were made with streets and careers, drawn by line, and the east-west and north-south first fan.

These took the blocks bounded to the south by the creek The Caraguaja, and north of the Rio Frio and relatively flat topography with slight slope to the west, divided by the stream of Lavapatas. The core is formed in the generator of the major human activities element with points or milestones's leading reference, like the tower of the parish church, dedicated to the Virgin of La Candelaria, the offices of the mayor and other administrative institutions, and dwellings or residences of the most representative families.

From the main square around the neighborhood Center whose