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His experiences have been going on since 1756, when Captain Diego de Montes, fulfilling an order from his boss Alonso Esteban Rangel, arrived at these broken stands in the company of his subordinates and settled in the middle of the four mountains that run around La Arboleda. ´´. Historians point out that from this site they have brought the strategies of combat against the ferocious Chitaremos, who set the region and obey the brave chief Cínera.

It is not known exactly who the first settlers were, but the tradition is similar to that of Ignacio Pajes, Joaquín Fuentes, Manuel Angarita, José Ignacio Ramos and Antonio Laguado. More attached to ´´Las Arboledas´´, Trinidad Contreras, the brothers Raimundo and Federico Cárdenas, Pedro Pulido, Rafael Morales David Lizarazo and Joaquín Silva.

Until 1760, Arboledas belonged to the coadjutor del Chopo doctrine (today Pamplonita), then it became part of Cucutilla, it has been taking the arboledanos to seize Francisco Fernández de Cáceres to manage the creation of the parish.

The gestures ended with their creation, taking place at the inauguration on December 8, 1804, under the invocation of the Holy Trinity and naming the elderly Anselmo García as the first parish priest, who was transferred from Cucutilla to where his ministry was.

It was created as a municipality in 1835. Ordinance Number 57 of 1918 delimited Arboledas and Cucutilla.





Full name: Arboledas

Foundation: December 8, 1804

Founder: Diego de Montes

Population: 2005 DANE Census: 9,270 inhabitants.

Altitude: 946 meters above sea level.

Extension: 456 Km2

Climate: 22 degrees C.



Distance to Cúcuta: 82 Km

Geographic coordinates: Longitude west of Greenwich 73º 21´, North latitude 8º 28´

Limits: North: Salazar de las Palmas,

South: Cucutilla,

East: Bochalema and Durania

West: department of Cáchira and Santander.



Administrative Division: Composed of 4 townships and 14 villages

Rivers: Arboledas, Zulia and the streams: Ventanas, Bagueche, Castro, San Antonio, Sulazquilla.

Center Region

Economy:

Agricultural production such as coffee.

Cattle, pig and poultry livestock production.





Parties:

Divine child

Holy Trinity

Creativity fair

Tourist sites:

The gaps

Great broken road

El mirador waterfall

La Hostería Pool

Monument to Santa Cruz

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