By Al Rodas
Inglés
say that pastors sent as penance for his parishioners to plant coffee bushes. Is for the many sins confessed, either by the fertility of the Colombian mountains, it is certain that the coffee abounded to such an extent that the nation soon became one of the first international production coffee.
During the second half of the nineteenth century Colombia was not a nation maker. The leadership I had his twin sister, Venezuela, while Colombian products were cocoa and mining. By the late nineteenth century coffee became important while in Venezuela declined to enter fully into their oil boom. One of the historical elements that would open the doors to the outside coffee would be the "colonization of Antioquia" or in a more modern "colonization paisa. At present the country's coffee first zone and possibly the first area Colombia's economic output coincides with the geographical area of \u200b\u200bthe "settlement countries", which is known as the coffee.
Colonization
The Nevado del Ruiz, chief of the Colombian Andes, guarded by the city of Manizales. Photo Wikimedia Commons.
In Republican-building processes of nineteenth-century Colombia, the "colonization of Antioch" has a fundamental place. She would be the main axis that would move into an era of industrialization in Colombia to the twentieth century and would be at a strategic point of national geography, between the fullness of the three Andean ranges, the two largest rivers in the country, at the point of connection between the north Atlantic, western Pacific, the southwestern and western sugar dominated by the nation's capital. Paradoxically, the place went unnoticed during the colonial and public lands were inhabited by mountain farmers without much impact on colonial life. Even practices such as slavery was abolished just as scarce naturally by the settlers who lived almost forgotten among the steep valleys la Montaña Antioqueña. Los centros españoles de mayor importancia eran aquellos localizados a la vera de los ríos Cauca y Magdalena y cuyo principal renglón económico era la explotación del oro. Los nombres de ciudades como Zaragoza, Segovia, Remedios, Yolombó, Cáceres, Santa Fé de Antioquia y otros entre las confluencias de los dos grandes ríos eran los principales centros del silencioso habitar antioqueño (o paisa como se dice hoy), mientras pueblos localizados en las montañas como Medellín, Rionegro, Marinilla, Sonsón y muchos otros no eran más que sitios de paso con una rígida vida católica, exclusivamente blancos y con un fuerte sentido por la unión familiar. Aún and of those people be leaving a very important figure in the Wars of Independence against Spain as the young General José María Córdoba, a warrior almost teenager it is for the Simon Bolivar and Antioquia who stopped the advance of the royalist troops to recapture the Nechí site or the Atanasio Girardot famous hero who was one of the most distinguished and seasoned parents of Colombian and Venezuelan homeland.
The search for better land for farming means that during the first decades of Independence, Antioquia families migrate south and enter those territories "vacant" who were under the influence of Cali, Popayan and Ibague, those areas surrounding the Nevado del Ruiz. While speaking of "colonization", the adventure has little to do with the process of English colonization was a very peaceful. Although it is said they were "uncultivated lands", this statement is also treated with care, because in those territories inhabited by indigenous communities in their own right who survived the English colonization and which are integrated into this "colonization paisa. Among the foundations that would be strictly Antioquia development axis has Manizales, founded in 1841, Armenia, founded in 1889 and Pereira, founded in 1863. With them the Antioquia extended into what is now the coffee and was separated from the governorship of Popayán, a situation that no change would be peaceful with the rising influence of Cali.
The Coffee
... and this region is so great they came from such delights as the Colombian coffee served on this blog thanks the lens always artistic Hector Meza.
The new families who settled in these territories, soon began a new story in the national production system especially coffee cultivation. A test of the success of the coffee boom and the late nineteenth century is that the War of a Thousand Days respected throughout Antioquia, while a regional policy of a certain industrial liberalism was imposed by the conservative elites of Medellin with Pedro Justo Berrio to head. The impenetrable mountain opened the nation with the construction of the tunnel Bankruptcy Santiago at the point of allowing the passage of Antioquia Railroad unforgettable. The advent of aviation would put the region in the Strait of Magellan country's emerging economy and there would be a curious change that exists today: the Antioquia towns that were in the major cities like Cologne Remedios, Zaragoza, Santa Fe de Antioquia, etc, fall into a final decline to give way to the hegemony of Medellín mountain villages as the people around you more new foundations as Manizales and Pereira.
The famous viaduct "César Gaviria Trujillo" between Dosquebradas and Pereira. Photo Orzalaga .
The new administrative division of Colombia departmentalization fragment enacted after 1886 would be born in Antioch and her four new departments: in the first phase the same Antioquia including coastal part (Urabá) and the banks of the Atrato chocuano and the department of Caldas Manizales created in 1904 as capital and a second phase to fragment into three Caldas Caldas, Risarlada with Pereira as capital and capital Quindío and Armenia as the middle of the twentieth century. But the influence of the subculture or Antioquia paisa was framed within the boundaries of these four departments: paisas peoples can now be found west of the department of Tolima and northern Valle del Cauca (Carthage, Union, Tulua, Versailles, etc.). For example, the lost city of Armero was a paisa town in Tolima department.
Today Coffee is known as the areas where coffee is the first rung of the economy. This includes strictly to the departments of Caldas, Risaralda and Quindio, but also coffee areas surrounding departments such as the so-called South-east of Antioquia and coffee areas and countries of Tolima and Valle del Cauca.
Pereira: The Pearl of Otún
If we were to make a visionary perspective on intermediate cities in Colombia, Pereira would be the subject of much study. It is the heart of the "Golden Triangle of Colombia", ie, geographically the center of the confluence of the three main urban Andes in Bogota, Medellin and Cali. Birthplace of great personalities of national life as the president César Gaviria Trujillo, who was also secretary of the OAS, athletes, artists, politicians and others, Pereira offers
Manizales City (414,389 inhabitants according to the Dane Census 2005) is the capital of the Caldas department, was one of the earliest settlements in the so-called colonization paisas of Antioquia. The city is located at the gates of the Nevado del Ruiz, a major national altitudes and is also the Arenas volcano, responsible for the disappearance of Armero (Tolima). A 305 km west of Bogota, 180 miles south of Medellin, 300 miles north of Cali, Manizales has an altitude of 2,126 kilometers above sea level, the climate is cold and the distinction of being a city of big hills and magnificent Andean landscapes. The AIRPORT La Nubia communicates with other regions.
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