History of Planeta Rica

Men ax and machete, as the brothers José and Francisco Rosario Roatan, and Liberato Jose Angel Fuentes, Mr. Innocent Polo, Pedro Conde, José del Carmen Diaz, Pedro Ruiz, Francisco Carrascal, Trinidad Mendoza, Joaquín Guzmán and Agustín Pérez, is constituted unsuspected founders of Planeta Rica.

By not having clear foundation date was agreed by consensus to take as foundation date February 10, 1885; in that year a few hundred meters further south formed a triangular square, with houses (ranchos of materials from the region), on all sides giving it the name of "Plaza de San Roque." higher and more suitable to achieve a settlement geographical point; thereafter begins to develop towards the southern part attached to the main road or formerly New Town Road that connected to the mainland. It's because until the end of 1900 the hamlet of Metro as it was called and it developed into the most suitable topographically parties. In 1909 the hamlet Planeta Rica was slowly evolving to the point that the most important areas would develop on the east and west taking as a main Calle Real today 20th Street, where begin to merge a number of ways that the began to communicate with the rural part of the territory. These roads do not coalesce in the Plaza de San Roque original point of settlement, but if the point where he had a better chance of settlement (now Plaza de la Candelaria) its flat topography and place of crossing that connected in the diagonal direction plaza. In 1954 it begins to build the Church of the Candelaria (central and hierarchical place where the commercial development of Planeta Rica mark). Spontaneity growth was offset by the traditional reluctance of landowners to incorporate productive urban use as well as a more or less proportional to the availability of economic resources,