History of Capurgana

when finally thanks to the leadership of Mrs. Narcisa Navas managed to build a small airstrip. Mrs. Narcisa and the pilot Jorge Mario Uribe took Capurganá the first tourists in a small plane Cessna. We must recognize the work of Ms. Narcisa, Don Justiniano Murillo, Brothers Jorge and Blas Pertuz, Mr. Lino Buendia, Mr. Abel Pacheco and many others who provided the land for its construction. Today the airport in Capurganá (IATA Code: CPB) is named in tribute to this admirable woman.

Initially families from neighbouring Antioquia state arrived to build small summer houses. The Mora, Uribe, Arango and Isaza families and especially the charismatic Samuel Isaacs, a relative of the famous Colombian writer Don Jorge Isaacs.

It was Mr. José María Palacio with his son Hector who in 1975 organized the first hotel was a small log cabins and iraca palm roof (Carludovica palmata). After The Cabins (now the renewed Tacarcuna Lodge) was followed by other hotels like Almar and Calypso and now its hotel infrastructure by 1990 had grown to more than 20 hotels, inns and hostels. The small town became gradually a favorite destination for the emerging Colombian eco-tourists