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This Saturday and Sunday being held in the Union 'Weekend Nature, an initiative that is part of the "Spring Arts IV' of the municipality and will have as main activities popular cleaning and Chorrillo Spot Portman hiking route to the no less famous Road 33.

So, on Saturday 12 from 10.00 am, Old Public Market will be the starting point for those volunteers wishing to participate in cleaning the Chorrillo Spot, an enclave in the foothills of the Sierra Minera which serves as a permanent tribute the spring that once supplied the drinking water shortage in the municipality, and where there were long queues, jugs in hand.

Was unionense Lorenzo Antonio Pagan, mechanical turner in the mines, who for four decades remodeled and cleaned the 'Chorrillo' after being unused this, a great example of a selfless man who would not missing the water there, so installed tanks, water pipes made, amended and made part of the environment replanting of trees that extol the beauty of the landscape.

At present there are in this place several gardens, bridges, pipelines, bleachers, benches and tables, and a small chapel beside the small stream that gives its name to this site for unionenses endearing.

For its part, will take place on Sunday 13 walkers to Portman Road by Road 33, an activity that will start again from the Old Public Market at 10.00 hours, which allow participants to see one of the main routes into the mined ore to La Union back in 1900 when mining in the region was booming.

Today this route has become a veritable open-air mining museum, part theme park and backbone of the Sierra Minera.

It so happened that the ordinal of the road in the County Plan and the year of completion of construction (1933) proved to be the same, thirty-three, hence its popular name.

So far confirmed their participation in this Weekend Nature groups and associations Roller Masters, Boy Scouts of La Union, Civil Protection, Vedruna Foundation, New Generations of PP and the Association of Southeastern Naturalist (ANSE), and as a large group of municipal officials.

In addition, after both outdoor activities will be a sharing of snacks and refreshments for all participants, while Sunday will be available for walkers a bus to bring them back from Portman.

All residents and visitors to the county, and beyond, are invited.

Source: Ayuntamiento de La Unión