San José Obrero

The Pao was initially a property owned by the Vera brothers. Arturo Vera and Celestino Vera in mid-1925, they discovered a very bright iron stone and took it to analyze some merchants named Bocardo in Ciudad Bolívar, they analyzed it and in this way they discovered the potential of this discovery that Long would become the largest open-pit iron mine in Venezuela. They paid a misery to the brothers and acquired the land, obtaining their exploitation rights. The Betlehem Steel corporation made explorations on the El Florero hill, determining large iron deposits in this area, Eduardo Boccardo transferred the mining rights to the Betlehem Steel, which developed an exploitation project, creating the subsidiary company Iron Mines Company Of Venezuela This discovery allowed to give the first concisions of exploitation of iron ore to foreign companies in Venezuela, which was responsible for creating the mine with all its facilities, the railroad to the shipping port of Palua, the camps well differentiated in their social strata , such as the vase or administrative field, Raking High and San José Obrero. I also create the administrative field club and the Bolívar social club of the San José Obrero field, the commissary, the houses with all their facilities and services, the power lines, the streets, the National Guard detachment, the hospital, the hotel that Then it happened to be the high school, the squares (the commercial area), the prefecture, the police, the telegraph that later became the Cantv office, the baseball stadium, the square, the church and the school, in addition commissioned to install a repeater for the open TV service, a novelty since Puerto Ordaz and San Felix went to El Pao to watch boxing fights and US baseball games on TV. In 1974 the management of the mine was transferred to the Venezuelan state and in 1975 the company Ferro Minera Orinoco, belonging to the Venezuelan Corporation of Guayana, joined the exploitation work.

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