s Valverde Vega,
a medic and founder of the Unión Médica Nacional (National Medical Union)who
was the first death of the 1948 revolution. The members of the board that
struggle to accomplish it are: Samuel Alfaro Alpízar, Efraím Zamora Castro,
Dauve Alfaro Castro, Pedro Alfaro Zamora, Hebly Inkseter Soto, Otoniel Alfaro
Alfaro and Eliécer Pérez Conejo and they are know today as the founders. The
Canton was inaugurated on January 1, 1950, after several years of struggle
