group of settlers from
Santander and other Departments of the Interior of the country, in 1972 the
Incora took over the colonization project and due to the great distance that
farmers must travel to their supply decided to build on the banks of the Broken
"LA PAVA" an agricultural cooperative around which the colonists
begin to settle to form a sort of hamlet called Pavas. The runway or landing
field built by the Cooperative was enlarged. In those same days the name of the
guan changed to "Saravena" does not yet specified exactly whence the
word Saravena So while some think that the word is derived U'wa saramina
meaning "new mother woman" others contend that comes from the word
sararena, Sarare. Saravena part of the municipality of Tame, but arriving
colonization was promoted to police inspection, soon was corregimiento and by
decree 2004 of 3 February 1976 was erected as a township.
