Keywords
Interoceanic Canal
Agustín Codazzi
Colonization and Canalization
New Grenade
Keywords plus
Canalization
colonization
Choreographic commission.
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Abstract
The Colombian definition of its nationality in the xix century, reached it’s final stage during the explorations organized by the NewGrenade’s Corographic Commission (1850-1858). Along various decades, the need of knowing the size, shape and contentsof the whole virreinato, demanded several studies to solve these incognites. These studies were based more and more withtime in scientifics bases. The Corographic Commission unified the largest volume of data about the natural, material, economiccultural and social realities of the country, and showed its particularities about the other ex colonies independized. Betweenit’s most authentic characteristics the one that highlighted was its geographic condition opened to the globe’s oceans, mostof the scientific studies were directly related with this point, as so many international and commercial activities, territorial occupationplans and other ideas of possibles constructions. The most important of this was the idea of a inter-oceanic canal.Project which the Commission provided with enough time and resources, producing in 1854 the most precise report about thefactibility of constructing the canal and its final route. The role of the Commission Chief, Agustin Codazzi, was determinant forthe definition of the neo-Grenadian territory and in his recommendations about a way between the Caribbean and the Pacific.Apuntes 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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