Political Dispute Between Calarcá-Quindío and Empresa De Fomento y Colonización Burila (1886-1908). At Look at the Territorial Construction of the Colombian State

Abstract

This article intends to contribute to the study of the formative process of the Colombian State, analyzing the conflicts between the Empresa Burila, the colonists and the local bureaucracy of Salento and Calarcá, due to the vacant lands destined to colonize the northeast region of the province of Quindío. The relevance of the case consists in that it allows to analyze the use and instrumentation of the agrarian regulations with which the colonization processes were regulated and lands were adjudicated between the 19th and 20th century, showing how the formation of the State depends not only on the intervention of the central bureaucracies, but also on the population management and the State agents in the territories. Methodologically, some memories of settlers were reviewed, it was done a follow-up to the lawsuits that rest in the Archivo General de la Nación and the Archivo Histórico de Cartago, and Memorias del Ministro de Industrias of 1931 were consulted.