Regional economy and export trade at San Juan de Pasto in the mid century XIX

Abstract

This paper analyzes the socio-economic aspects that occurred in San Juan de Pasto after the wars of independence. Also, it examines the characteristics that had the local economy during the export apogee presented in Colombia in the mid-nineteenth century. In this study, the proposal of non-simultaneity of the simultaneous of the author Carlos Rincón is introduced which allows an analysis that connects the national events and regional particularities. This work was oriented under a methodology of document review; making a study of content to bibliographical sources about the social and economic history in southwestern Colombia, and a study of archival of sources found in historical documentation centers. After, of this process is found that the city of San Juan de Pasto in the mid-nineteenth century went through a difficult economic situation generated by the wars of independence and the fragile link in the export apogee presented in Colombia in mid-century. Therefore, regional particularities before the national socio-economic events were established.