The Hacienda Chimbayaco, owned by Master Juan Losada Young, is the starting point for the development of El Agrado, when, on May 7, 1753, which gave the land known as the Chimbayaco plain, the jurisdiction of the city of Timan , where the whites of the parish of El Pital lived, who lived with the Indians of Páez. So they prospered in the nucleus of people and merchandise, that 54 years later, José Antonio Barreiro, Camilo Carvajal, Joaquín Polo, Agustín Ramírez and Pedro Osorio revived the need to establish a vice-parish in the Chimbayaco plain, and a land donated for this purpose. Viceroy Amar y Borbón, who informed the bishop of Popayán, ordered the creation of the vice-parish, under the protection of Our Lady of Belen, but it still depended on the parish of El Pital. After 40 years, the Vice-Parish of Our Lady of Bethlehem became a Parrish district on April 5, 1837.
the new city was originally called with the name of Our Lady of Bethlehem and some time later, only Bethlehem. Recognizing its origin and the smallness of the hamlet, the inhabitants changed its name to Pitalito, until 1835 when, due to the existence of another town with that name, they changed it to Agrado, with which it was officially founded and established as a municipality. in 1837. The Territorial Planning Scheme, El Agrado has a population of 9,461 inhabitants, of which 50.80% live in the center of the town and the remaining 49.19% in the surrounding rural areas. Its most populated villages are those of El Astillero, La María, Montesitos, La Cañada, La Escalereta, and San José de Belén.
places: petroglyphs, charco el poira, batatal, quebrada de buena vista, la yaguilda, san jose de belen chapel, oil wells
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economy: the agricultural sector and the commercial sector, becoming the basis of the economy. agriculture with coffee, sugarcane, banana and vegetables crops. It is known as "Jardín Agraduno" and has the nickname of «Cradle of José María Rojas Garrido»
