Migración boyacense en la Cordillera Central, 1876-1945Del altiplano cundiboyacense a los espacios de homogeneización antioqueña

Abstract

This article offers a historical and sociological point perspective cundiboyacense migrational process in Colombian Central mountains and explains the historical evolution, the phases of migration, and its socio-cultural processes. It identifies the determinants of the phenomenon, and explains the profile of its contact and the consequent adaptation and integration with people of Antioquia ancestry in the zone of settlement. The selected Andean area —the municipalities of Libano and Murillo in the state of Tolima, the high mountain of Letras and Manizales in the state of Caldas— allows a study of the historical role of the interregional migration from the point of view of its demographic, cultural and economic contribution to the confluence of different regional and ethnics elements since the middle nineteenth century. The study points the importance of local factors —lack of land, labour disposition and violence; the external factors —land and wage offers; and personal motivations —personal contacts and life's style. And it points too the importance of elements that interacted during the different phases of migration and historic circumtances related with free uncultivated land distribution and the expansion of the coffee culture in the Colombian Central mountain.

Keywords

• Migration
• andean area
• antioqueños
• boyacenses
• Colombia.