Transcription of the document "La medida" by Nicolás Buenaventura

Archivo General de la Nación, Tomo V, Colonia, Arreglo de caminos. 1917.

Abstract

In 1778 Ignacio Nicolás Buenaventura, lieutenant governor of Ibagué, prepared and sent to the administration of the viceroyalty of New Granada several reports on the social and economic situation in the Quindío Mountains; One of these works was to identify the "suertes" or sections of the road between the towns of Ibagué and Cartago and, with this, to establish the responsibilities to maintain the road on both sides of the mountain range, and the possibilities of settlement and development of the area based on the marking and identification of ventas, tambos, streams, river crossings and, above all, the distances between different points that would serve as a reference for those who needed to use this road. This work was complemented with an inventory of useful, medicinal and edible plants, as well as different descriptions of the situation of the Pindaná reservation and the traders that circulated between Cartago and Ibagué.