History of Yopal

Gonzalez, who for their entrepreneurial spirit is considered the pioneer of the foundation and formation of the people. Besides Mr. Pedro Pablo Tegua combined activities, tinker and even shyster  . By 1930 they had built four houses, the fifth made ​​Campo Elias Prieto and left where it is now the home of Adelfo Prieto. Child Rigoberto built Yopal the sixth house.

In 1932 we began the first school and his teacher was Marcelino Child, who earned a monthly salary of 50 pesos  . For that year the town had another neighbor, Jose Perez, who established his home where he is today the Protestant Christian church mission Pan, adjacent to the headquarters of the center of the Fire Department. 

From foundation to township

The first celebrations were held Yopal in 1934 the band enlivened by Tasco, which was paid 100 pesos for their service  .By this time El Morro was the county seat of Yopal, as this fledgling settlement did not meet the minimum requirements to become a police inspection. In 1936 he became Yopal township , and was the first mayor of the police officer Guillermo Díaz Martínez. 

Yopal, municipal

In 1937, while serving as prefect of Casanare Guillermo Diaz Estrada, Yopal residents began fighting for the transfer of the municipal from El Morro to Yopal under the circumstances it was becoming clear the progress made in the district and that most cattle sales transactions were being made more frequently in Yopal, and no longer in El Morro.

That's when a group of residents at night and stole Yopal mule files of the municipal