rence to "Calle arriba" (Up the
road) and "Calle Abajo," (down the road) was common. The square and
the Church of the Rosary were used as the central point. On 28 December 1883
the "Ciudadano Presidente " of the Antioquia State renamed the
village from Hatoviejo to Bello, at the request of a group of people who felt
that the name "Hato" made them despised and humiliated as hato was a place for animals. Instead, the name Bello was
"more cultured, more appropriate and more worthy of the great patriarch of
American letters" (Andrés Bello)
