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Ábrego, originally called La Cruz, was founded in 1765 on land donated by Ana Josefa and María Teresa Maldonado, to the lands of Gregorio Quintero, Aquilino Jácome, Miguel Navarro, Ramón Trillo, Manuel Gómez, Esteban Patricia. , Francisco Peñaranda and Miguel Álvarez Castrillón.

The first forgers of Ábrego were: Antonio José del Rincón, owner of the El Algodonal farm in 1753; Lope Bernardo de Maris, owner of the Aratoque hacienda in 1774; María Quiroz del Barco, owner of the farm La Labranza in the late seventeenth century;

Isabel Bonilla owner of Los Hatos de Oropoma (this farm is also called Caracica). Know how Las Cruces has to call La Cruz singularly La Cruz.

On the occasion of the issuance of Law 5 of 1920, which ordered the change of homonymous names in some Colombian municipalities, the Santander de Norte neighborhood extends Ordinance Number 32 of April 11, 1930 by using the name of the name. of Ábrego, in honor of the heroine of the north of Santander sacrificed in 1813





Full name: Ábrego

Foundation: 1765

Founder: Ana Josefa and María Teresa Maldonado

Creation: June 4, 1795

Distance to Cúcuta: 178 Km

Population: DANE 2005 Census: 34,492 inhabitants

Altitude: 1,398 meters above sea level.

Extension: 1342 Km2

Climate: Average 21º C.

Geographic coordinates: Longitude west of Greenwich 73º 14´, North latitude 8º 05´

Limits: North: La Playa, Hacarí and Ocaña,

South: La Esperanza and Cáchira,

East: Bucarasica, Villacaro and Sardinata West: San Martín and San Alberto of the Dpto. Of Cesar

Administrative Division: Made up of 7 townships and 119 villages

Rivers: Algodonal, Oroque, Frío.

Region: Central

Economy

Agricultural sector with lines such as corn, beans, vegetables and fruit trees.

Livestock sector with exploitation of cattle, pigs.

Mica, talc, barite stone and lead sector.





Parties

June 29: Saint Peter and Saint Paul.

December 4: Santa Bárbara, patron of the municipality.

July 16: Virgen del Carmen, patron saint of drivers.

Feast of Merciful Jesus in the San Carlos neighborhood

Fiesta San Antonio in the same town

Tourist sites

Ábrego Valley

Las Maldonado Bridge

The alley

Cuckoo stick

El Oroque Dam

Black stones

House of Culture

La Piñuela Avenue

Pozo Cristalinas and Pozo del Clay

Monument to the Immaculate Conception

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