25 years ago - on August 20, 1998 - the municipality of Filandia was celebrating 120 years of foundation and its anniversary took place with a very special program. A very interesting cultural management process had been generated before, from the Technological University of Pereira, where it had been proposed to hold an unusual festive event to commemorate another year of the municipal life of my homeland. And, also, the reminder of a community event that brought together the people of Filand at the end of the 1930s. It was about refreshing the memory of the raising of a large kite, which flew through the air to the land of Alcalá, and which had been handcrafted by a saddler named Jesús María Ocampo, nicknamed “Chun”, with the participation of others. parishioners.

Those were difficult years, because the global economic depression had also affected the province of an agrarian country like Colombia. In the territory of Quindío - and particularly in Filandia - the commercial activity that was motivated by the existence of the Camino del Quindío, a road that passed through its contours, had decreased considerably. The reduced passage of cargo mules carrying goods and travelers along that historic path was due to the fact that the railway line had been inaugurated years before. Since 1927, the territory had train stations in Armenia, Montenegro, Sucre (Ulloa), Quimbaya and Pereira. The muleteers' transport was becoming less and less and Filandia now saw its urban center lonely, accompanied by a feeling of agony that its inhabitants suffered. The tireless “Chun”, concerned about the plight of his countrymen, proposed to raise their spirits around a dreamy idea, to raise the enormous kite into the skies, in the month of August. And thus strengthen the spirits, which were already hitting the feelings of a conglomerate that remembered the first three decades of the twentieth century with nostalgia.