Cerro de la Memoria

The Cerro de la Memoria is the must-see landmark of the city.
The settlers of Owen called Hill of the Memory because there they began to bury their deceased ones. It is known that the first person buried was the girl Nancy Logran, who died of malaria. El Cerro was, therefore, a kind of reference that guided them to know where their relatives were.

The road from the skirt to the top should have been sent by Don Benjamin Francis Johnston, who climbed high, filled his lungs with pure air, and surveyed horizon until he saw the fumes of the chimneys of his factory.

Then, in the skirt of the hill itself, the authorities erected the first municipal pantheon. Some years ago the Catholic faith took to the top of the hill a giant statue of the Virgin of the Fort Valley, who is constantly visited by believers.

Below we present a video in which you can appreciate the landscape from different points of the Memory Hill:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gze_Edc4Eo