History of El Playon

This is achieved thanks to the support of the caucus of conservative deputies of the Assembly of Santander and by the ordinance of 1979 was given to the municipality of legal life playón unfortunately suffered misfortune natural disasters caused by the flood of the river, which occurred on Sunday November 25, 1979 at the dawn of the morning just when I was finishing the celebration of its creation. This made the operation of the hall, which only began from the first of January 1981 with the appointment of Mr. Othniel and possession Carreño as its first mayor, who set up his office in the two-storey house is located in the delayed 7th race against the area devastated by the flood.

As if the flood disaster were not enough, in mid-1984 the town suffered another such catastrophe but not natural, but thanks to a political failure Santander Administrative Court annulled the ordinance that had created a borough by demand that had been established by the then Liberal MP Patrick Tiberio Villareal Ramos Rionegro. The struggle for the reconquest was restarted and again by Ordinance No. 13 of 21 November 1984 Santander Assembly authorized the governor to create the town again.

And that was how Dr. Alvaro Cala Hederich was issued and published the Decree 3515 of 28 December of the same year which again created the town and appoint Mr. Pablo Enrique Martines Mayorga again Municipal Mayor who restart their work the first of January 1985 and was subsequently happened in your order Zambrano RIP Mario Eusebio, Luis Alejandro and Carlos Arturo Mendoza Reatiga Cardenas last Mayor for appointment. The popular election of