History of Flandes

municipality by ordinance No. 1 of 1949.

In addition to the consolidated profit for next to Girardot as agro-industrial port in the country, and then with the construction station cargo and passengers to the railway connection between rail and rail Girardot Facativa Pacific. The town of Flanders was present at the beginning of aviation in Colombia with the first flight in the country by the airline founded by German SCADTA from Barranquilla to the city on the river Magdalena flight was made in a seaplane, later built the Santiago Vila Airport in Flanders served as a bridge connecting the city and the country.

The city tourism trend appears with falling communications railways in the country due to the city's strategic position ideal to become the resort and recreation in Bogotá region.

Currently and according to plan land use within the municipality participates Metropolitan Girardot .