History of Covenas

Progressively acquired land surrounding his already large estate to have 20,000 hectares of land between Tolú and Coveñas, with rich pastures, thousands of coconut trees and unlimited possibilities. She was also acquiring 40,000 won to possess hundreds of horses and cattle and beasts of burden. Farmers of the then Great Bolivar department, Carlos and Fernando Velez Danies, Julian Pattern Airiarte, Celedonio Piñeres & Co. and Diego Martinez & Co., the company formed the first Colombian cattle that merged with the American company The International Products Co., experienced in the installation of refrigeration plants in Paraguay and Argentina, Colombia created the company Products Co., whose purpose was to build a refrigerator in Covenas industrial complex called The Packing House Coveñas, the first in Colombia to export cattle meat chilled and frozen.

This is the story of one of the largest and most visionary companies in the early twentieth century in Colombia, which led to the large amount of available financial, technical and incorporation of numerous national and foreign workers to install in Covenas, between 1919 and 1923, the giant complex fridge then commonly called The Packing House,