the territory of Caquetá; in 1857 it became part of
the federal state of Cauca; in 1905, General Rafael Reyes ordered the creation
of the quartermaster of Putumayo; in 1909 he was part of the quartermaster's
department of Caqueta and Nariño; in 1912 was created the special police
Putumayo, in 1953 he joined the department of Nariño, where he remained until
1957 In 1968, Law 72 created the quartermaster Putumayo officially incorporated
in 1969; finally, on July 4, 1991, the National Constituent Assembly created
the current department of Putumayo. By the year 1963, several people from
around the country, attracted by the wealth it represented the discovery of
black gold in the region, and led by Mr. Jacinto and Manuel Losada Loyola, and
seconded by Apolinar Bustos, Antonio Alvarez, Jesus Brown, Neftaly Oyola,
Guillermo Chamorro, Julio Giron, Antonio Pantoja, Arturo Quiroga and Gregorio
Delgado, were given the task of organizing a population, which is the origin of
the present town of Orito. The installation in the vicinity of the camps and
the oil revenues from the oil industry, allowed the town to grow rapidly be
converted into a municipality on July 1, 1979 Municipality of Orito, Putumayo
Department, ski area Mount on Amazon, whose boundaries are: North by the
Municipality of Villa Garzón, the east with the area vega of the Municipalities
of Puerto Asis and Puerto Caicedo, south to the Valley of Guamuez and west with
the Department of Nariño and the Republic of Ecuador. The municipality of Orito
is located in the south western sector 0ª38 Colombia "north latitude and
16ª37" west of Grenwich latitude with ASNM. 310, average daytime
temperature 33ªC and 27ªC at night, annual rainfall of 2500mm. The population
of the municipality of Orito as DANE Projection 2008 amounted to 46,194
inhabitants, of which 19,179 live in the county seat and 27,015 in the rest of
the territory. It's been drained by the Cauldron, Orito, Yarumo, AEA and
