History of Vetas

ressors, lighting systems and all the elements for great factory, who traveled by the Magdalena River to Puerto Wilches, where continued by mule. The French built a railway network itself and numerous tunnels. With the War of a Thousand Days, at the beginning of the century and later with the First World War, the company succumbed and all the machinery was abandoned, marking the beginning of a new era in 1930, miners mining region decay.

The Republic

Working Enzaron abandoned mines, and Mining Law that ancestral right belonged to them. These miners are precursors of current mining. In the decade of the 40 German capital was invested and there was a revival, especially in mines Glory and Tosca. By this time the mills were purchased Californians, cast in the Workshop The Condor. Veins became isolated due to lack of roads, the existing road between veins with Berlin, was built by the miners themselves early in the fifties, are 27 kilometers of dirt road running through mist-covered moors important and dripping water running down mossy rocks. From the road you can admire this white village embedded in the mountain, which rightly has been called "Town Manger of Colombia." From Basque roots, independent and hardworking, the Vétanos have built their village, becoming pioneers of self-management in Colombia. The roads, the water supply and sewerage, the mayor, the parish, school and health post, have been built by Vétanos themselves with government assistance. Given the rugged terrain took on the task of flattening a mountain to build the soccer field, which proudly called "The Incredible"