onverted-space"> Lourdes
in
1905
and the opening of the road to the
town on 2 July
1938
facilitating trade in this part of the
department.
Later in the course
of the road from Cucuta to the Atlantic coast by
Ocaña
(in the 50s), the town known for some
years a certain height to be passing travelers and traders in both directions.
The declining importance of this route
in the sixties was decisive in the stagnation of the municipality, which is
experiencing a new revival in the seventies with the road to Carmen de Nazareth
Township township Salazar and subsequent road link with the municipality of
Villacaro.
Oblivion
bureaucratic central government made the widening and paving of the road to see
Cucuta delayed until the 90, setting a delay in the development of the economy,
not just the town but in the region.
In 1910 the
department of Santander
