History of The Department of Antioquia - Colonization By People of Antioquia

Colonization By People of Antioquia

Since its beginnings, Antioquia was a region almost isolated from the rest of the world, this relative isolation continued through the colonial period and the subsequent. The isolation caused its social and economic development maintained a lower level that that of the rest of Colombia, situation that prevailed until the republicanism and the industrial revolution era with the introduction of the train.