Betancourt, Alexander y Sebastián Martínez. La Montaña del Quindío: Una frontera interior 1840-1880. Pereira: Editorial Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira, 2021

Abstract

During the 19th century, the region that later became known as Gran Caldas was spatially and administratively configured, made up of territories that had belonged to the sovereign states (during the federalist experience) and to the departments of Cauca, Tolima and Antioquia (after the constitution of 1986). As pointed out by Luis Javier Ortiz, Lina Marcela González and Óscar Almario García, early in the 20th century, interpretations of the past of this region emerged where coffee and the "epic of Antioquian colonization" played a predominant role in the analyses that sought to study the economic, social and political configurations of a space that belonged to different administrative units.