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It is because on the banks of the river, in
a good puddle where the people of Cali went to bathe, there lived a family with a surname
Meléndez, which is why the place took its name. -
Families of miners from Viejo Caldas arrived on the slopes of Los
Jets, displaced by two English companies. Since then, the exploitation begins
of coal in the Los Chorros Mines, owned by the Pacific Railroad. It was the
only business exploitation mines in the Municipality, with 150 workers. -
The Railroad management decides to massively liquidate the workers,
due to the closure of the mines in Melendez, since there was going to be a change of fuel for the
coal-to-oil locomotives, which generated a resounding rejection of the
citizenship of Cali. -
The first houses were handed over to the workers in the Los Chorros sector, a great strike broke out in the mining sector for better working conditions.
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There is an increase in demand for coal from industry in the
Cali-Yumbo corridor -
The definitive change of
steam locomotives for diesel locomotives, which generates a decline in the exploitation of
coal in the Los Chorros sector, becoming a popular neighborhood -
The Alto Jordán sector begins to be populated with families,
especially from Cauca and Nariño