responsible for guiding the engineer Emilio Atehortúa properties to Mr. Luis
Antonio Camacho Prada, where the engineer asks the owner to grant you
accentuate the camp. In search of a better place up a ravine that runs through
these lands reaching a flat located on one side of a well that was called
Pailas, Camacho Prada Emilio Atehortúa engineer referred to the origin of the
well.
Atehortúa was satisifed with the place surrounded by mountains and also decided
to build this site operations center calling this camp site Pailas.
With the contraction of two special housing for the engineer and doctor of
ministry of public works, he begins the population of this area. Later, with
the construction of the hospital (with sawn lumber), where school work Tunumá
San Jose, was initiated in bending Pailitas firm on March 4, 1941 Without a
doubt the construction of this national artery allowed a whole vast region of
mountains, valleys, savannas and completely barren plains, were colonized and
developed by people from the Ocaña Carmen, Convention and all villages in Norte
de Santander, who were also joined by people from the departments of Santander
South, Antioquia, Magdalena and Bolivar.
Large fine, cattle ranches and new sidewalks built with the sweat of these
eager wandering peasants to have a settlement for their families were formed,
highways today are converted into drivable roads along which opened the same
peasants of yesteryear yearning peace and harmony of the past
