La visión de los otros. Colombia vista por observadores extranjeros en el siglo XIX.

Abstract

In this article a number of 19th century European and American travelers’ vision of Colombia, its demographic composition, its economy, and its social and political organization are presented and compared. Their diverse views of the Colombian reality of their time are also compared and commented on.

Keywords

• Colombia in the 19th century
• social organization
• political life
• cultural development
• state of the economy.