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From Frontier Town to Metropolis - A History of Villavicencio, Colombia, since 1842 (Paperback)
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From Frontier Town to Metropolis - A History of Villavicencio, Colombia, since 1842 (Paperback)
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Although Villavicencio, the capital of the Department of Meta, is
located just 120 miles from Bogota, the mountains of the eastern
Andean Cordillera lies between the two cities. As a result, after
its founding in 1842, Villavicencio remained an isolated frontier
outpost for more than one hundred years even though "El Portal de
la Llanura" ("the Gateway to the Plains") provided the principal
access to Colombia's tropical plains (Llanos), a vast grassy region
cut by tributaries connecting with the Meta and Guaviare rivers and
eventually the Orinoco. Nineteenth- and twentieth-century
governments in Bogota regarded the Llanos as the "Eastern Lands of
Promise," underestimating the geographic and climatic obstacles to
their development. From Frontier Town to Metropolis recounts the
history of the town and explains how, by the twenty-first century,
it became a thriving metropolis with a population nearing three
hundred thousand. During the next sixty years, it became the
principal urban center of the Llanos despite the continual presence
of militant guerrillas, paramilitaries, and drug traffickers. This
book examines the developments that transformed Villavicencio,
drawing on data collected about the Colombian Llanos over a period
of forty years. Noted researcher Jane M. Rausch offers a detailed
treatment of the development of Villavicencio and the Department of
Meta as a microcosm of Colombia's eastern frontier. The book
incorporates a wealth of research published in Spanish by Colombian
scholars in the last twenty years and is the first history of
Villavicencio available to English-speaking scholars. It considers
the important topics of when a frontier is no longer a frontier and
the role played by frontier images in contemporary nationalism."
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