History of Campoalegre

Over a period of 90 years - from 1809 to 1900 - Campoalegre developed very slowly as most regional populations and built area encompassing the entire neighborhood Center and part of the settlements called Clementina, The Caraguaja and Panama. Its approximate boundaries were racing 4 through 12 and street 14 to 23 of the current urban nomenclature.

In this space of time and started it some pathways, such as the so-called Alley Returns the path to the Neighborhood Gaitán and the way Piravante communicating with Neiva, and that was the real road today run 9th, where circulating 70% of the flows originate from the northern region of Huila and the center and south of it.

In this sector the first houses were built in adobe, adobe and rammed earth, with spacious patios or indoor sites where coconut palms towered tree that has long been the symbol of the city whose skyline excelled in height. These representative houses had also covered in clay tiles were severely damaged or palmicha by the April 1967 earthquake that almost completely destroyed the population.

In place of such, no new construction or retained volumes or eaves, or platforms, or phenotypes of doors and windows, and building materials rose, thinking it was modernism to despise these cultural values ​​and go outside our own fashion identity. With