The community was founded with the repartition of land to patrón Augusto Vicente Pijoán after the Bolivian War of Independence.

The community was named for the Our Lady of Mount Carmel, chosen by Matilde Belmonte, mother of the patrón of the new hacienda.

The Colegio San Francisco Xavier, under the direction of Brother Niles "Nilo" Cullen, received the best students from all over the Prelature (later, Diocese) of Coroico, then under Msgr.

The ideals of the high school were "Trabajo, Estudio, Deporte y Religión" ("Work, Study, Sports and Religion").

[2] With the departure of Brother Nilo from Carmen Pampa in 1983, Franciscan Sister Mary Damon Nolan was made principal.