History of Contadero

The name is possibly derived Contadero connotation on a site where cattle Jesuit met so that it can have another version states that the existing a pascana called the King's Road travelers stopped to rest and commented anecdotes their trips. In the beginning The Contadero had a simple chapel, with a small tower for the bells, wooden gate with arch and two pilasters to either side, the small square with stone steps up above the main door a window gave light to inside the choir, opposite the rectory house was a large wooden trunk to tie the horses that arrived with their loads to pay tithes and first fruits of duty per year each contadereños parishioners. Its streets were not paved, there was a small square park four walnut trees adorned the square at each corner, there was a water stacked near the door of forgiveness of the church, which provided water its first inhabitants