Melendez

By Sebastian Chie Huang

  • Miguel Umaña becomes the owner of Melendez

  • The municipality take the sugar mills that were in ejido land

  • The owners of Melendez do the sociedad

  • Period: to

    families of miners from Viejo Caldas arrived on the slopes of Los Jets, displaced by two English companies

  • the Railroad management decided to massively liquidate the workers, due to the closure of the mines, since there was going to be a change of fuel for the coal to oil locomotives

  • Began the settlements of the population in the sector

  • the first houses are delivered to the workers in the Los Chorros sector

  • A great strike breaks out in the mining sector, for better working conditions

  • the Municipality of Santiago de Cali and the Third Brigade

    the Municipality of Santiago de Cali and the Third Brigade signed a contract for
    swap, through which the Army ceded the land of the old Pichincha Battalion to
    the construction of the Municipal Administrative Center, in exchange for which the Municipality
    gave the Hacienda Napoles and 800 meters - between the Meléndez river and the Lili

  • The inaguration of Lacordaire School

  • Meléndez went from being a township to being an urban neighborhood of the city of Cali, still preserves much of that rural origin

  • the Alto Jordán sector begins to be populated with families, especially from Cauca and Nariño

  • the construction of the Meléndez Popular Spa and Recreation Center is ordered

  • The donation of 1.000.000 m2 to the Universidad del Valle

  • the construction of the Meléndez Popular Spa and Recreation Center is ordered

  • El Centro Cultural Popular Meléndez se crea en 1976, como una propuesta de laicos y religiosas interesadas en trabajar de cerca con las comunidades populares.

  • the Community Action Board devised in 2001 a survey to identify the interests

  • the El Parche Corporation, of the Comuna 18, won a prize of five million, which they decided to invest in changing the floor of the Community House and set up a playroom

  • they requested the support of the Ministry of Culture through a project, but the answer was negative, six months then they were receiving a visit from the Ministry and a month after the Government

  • Links

    http://www.cedecur.org/web/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/CARACTERIZACIÓN-C-18.pdf

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