Piamonte

To demarcate them, an imaginary curve could be drawn.between Puerto Bello, at the northwestern end, bordering the mountain range and then following the course of the Inchiyaco River on its left bank, to the El Cedro settlement.

This route was not as important as the one that penetrated in the last decade from Currillo up the Caquetá River, when factors such as the so-called crisis of the colonizing model in Caquetá, the opening of the road to the port of Currillo and the appearance of the coca economy.The migratory flow that entered from the west came mostly from Nariño and Putumayo, a product of the migratory movement that began from the high plateau to the slope of the eastern mountain range.

Currently, in terms of the categories of land holders, it can be seen that in Baja Bota Caucana the vast majority of inhabitants are settlers who have de facto possession over their improvements, without mediating the legal act of titling.

This activity is concentrated in the strip that demarcates the line of the Peripheral trail from Piamonte, La Vega, to Naples-El Edén, in properties that are located in the range of 100 to 200 hectares.

Its creation was the result of the coca strikes that occurred during this time, due to the abandonment that peasants and indigenous people felt by the state, and to the fact that no resources from the exploitation of the oil were allocated to the Baja Bota region.

Piamonte is part of the Amazon basin characterized by its high biodiversity, water resources, oil and ancestral culture [5] Piamonte has an economy based on the extraction of natural resources cinchona, rubber, wood, oil and coca, and specialized in agricultural activities for subsistence, with traditional crops such as banana, cassava, corn, chontaduro.

Having these riches has not translated into better living conditions for the residents, nor are they expressed in social or economic investment by the State; a great contradiction typical of the dynamics of capitalism that privileges some regions at the expense of the misery and exploitation [5] Piamonte is recognized as a place of transit due to the constant population mobility from neighboring departments such as Putumayo, Caquetá and Huila, due to forced displacement, the search for wealth or the arrival of people in search of productive lands, which is why it can be denominated as a multicultural municipality given its social composition.

It is commercially linked with neighboring towns in the departments of Caquetá and Putumayo such as: Curillo, San José del Fragua, and Belén de los Andaquíes in the first case and Villagarzón and Mocoa in the second.

[5] The municipality of Piamonte is inhabited by settlers from the interior of the country (departments of Caquetá, Putumayo, Nariño and Cauca), also by indigenous peoples – 12.24% of the Inga ethnic group – and a significant percentage of Afro-descendants.