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The Colombian municipality is subject to tension that, by its political-administrative organization, generates two contrary tendencies: on one hand, centralism, and on the other the forces of administrative an political decentralization which has occured as a response to the unequal development of our society and the strong regionalism by which we have populated the national territory. This article examines , though a juridical and chronological synthesis of the unveiling of this tension, the limitations of actual democratic participation at the local levels and the real meaning of citizenship in Colombia. Likewise, this article puts forward the concept of city-municipality to explain the transformations that have generated the process of urbanization over the traditional territoriality of the Colombian municipality.The journal Memoria y Sociedad is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights.
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