History of Campoalegre

Outside the perimeter, appear suburban settlements of affordable housing, low density and radial growth around roads that have some type of subnormality either by its spontaneous growth or not planned, by the lack of a title of property or the provision of some fundamental public service. Its growth linearly on the sides of the roads is very noticeable to the southeast of the city.

Current cases are suburban towns called Gaitán Alto, La Candelaria and La Esperanza housing low-income families and simultaneously enjoying rural and urban nature.

Based on the above it can be said that the development of the City did for over 100 years around the main square, with an urban fabric of streets and wide, straight and well-planned careers, with square corners and a growth headed west looking for the Llano Grande, against the background of the Eastern Cordillera foothills in El Roble blade and using the natural slope of the foothills to build your water and sewer and drain its stormwater through its broken urban.

There is more beauty, harmony, beauty and human scale in the ancient city, built in 1809-1967, with its houses of adobe or rammed earth one or two floors in the new settlements have many styles and construction techniques, without a new classified roads with avenues that begin and end suddenly without leading to any system.

This is mainly because the city has not had a continuous urban physical planning,