The territory of Chaguaní was populated by
Indians Panches whose head was the Cacique Chaguaní which its name was derived
and which in their language means "male Cerro de Oro" was founded by
a committee of Dominican Fathers headed by FRAY JOSE Ledo, the August 6, 1770
in lands discovered in 1543 by HERNÁN VENEGAS CARRILLO soldier Luis Lugo in 1892,
Nicolas Ortiz in Departmental Gazette writes about a village and a chapel
bareque located in the southwest corner of the Plaza; then built a mud where it
is today and so was consolidated Temple from ship to ship the passage of time,
to find a
