On October 14, 1841 the territory was founded as Palmar del Tuy and construction of infrastructure was begun. Once completed, the colonizing company went to the town of Endingen in Kaiserstuhl to select the settlers. The contracts between the company and immigrants were signed at the inn Der Pfauen, located a few meters from the entrance to the city. According to Alexander Benitz, one of the most reliable sources, the immigrants who embarked the Havre ship to Venezuela amounted to 389 people: 239 men and 150 women, most of them from Kaiserstuhl. They departed for Venezuela on December 18, 1842.