Road programs during the federal era: Antioquia and landlocked

Abstract

In the middle of nineteenth century, the Antioquia´s high elites had managed identify not only the problems meant by having military conflicts with other States, but also had become aware of the importance of designing a public policy of colonization and exploitation of the territory, mainly in areas where the concentration of wealth was becoming palpable along with the ability to open new ways to replace the Magdalena River.
In this eagerness, the Antiochians projected different companies of colonization and opening of roads, especially towards the Chocó, seeing on the Atrato River to get an way out to the sea, this was presented as safe and reliable route in a highly conflictive century. either way, the success of these companies was determined by the economic viability and the meddling of the emerging elite of Medellín, which ended up govern the state and being the engine of the road planifications, as well as build an image of entreprising Antiochian, characteristic in the south of the state overshadowed at the same time the other faces of Antioquia and the colonization of the east.