History of Fusagasuga

How do things change? Mainly in the construction of new houses, which, while small houses of mud and thatch, provide other landscape and increased use of urban land, it will grow throughout the nineteenth century and although mainly increase with the arrival of coffee , is throughout this century when they laid the foundation of a complex lifestyle.

Fusagasugá suffered between 1880 and 1970 the social, political and economic transformations in its history, which were reflected mainly in its city limits, since it is he who concentrates and stores the experiences of the inhabitants of the territory. Within this period there were two key moments in the urban development of the city, which are closely interlinked.

Between 1880 and 1940, the region and the city were introduced in the export economy through the expansion in production, processing and marketing of coffee, a situation that was concentrated by Fusagasugá, because it was the most urbanized city in the area , which had its reason in the condition as purchased crossroads before the Spanish arrival, allowing it to be must for travelers and traders who wish to take this route, well out to Bogota or the Magdalena River and south of country.

The influence on the city territory was exemplified by the concentration of political and social powers: first with the location of the head in Fusagasugá vicarial during 1885, and later with the receipt under his jurisdiction of a territory with the creation of the province , in 1895, but this space is politically constructed, is only part of the