Abstract

AVELLA, Francisco  and  MAHECHA, Nathaly. Dynamics of the settlement in the Colombian mainland Caribbean (1938-2005). memorias [online]. 2011, n.15, pp.75-125. ISSN 1794-8886.

Colombian mainland Caribbean regional space is organized according to a hard spreading process that since colony has been called unsuitable areas for settlement. These areas are characterized for their lowness, flood, warm, lengthy droughts, and heavy rains periods that do not allow enough humidity among the year, so it is unsuitable for agriculture, according to several analysts. This space has been occupied by a population that has moved between the land owning hope and the frustration of loss. That has been the main cause of a population dynamic which the study captures through the balance of migration effects (SEM and ISEM) in municipalities grouped into regions, such as Guhl and Fornaguera, who studied in the censuses between 1938 and 1964. The main objective of this analysis is to find relations between migratory processes of rest (rural area) and head (urban areas),comparing the inter-census periods, to formulate possible explanations about the association that violent episodes have with these migration processes and their imprints on the spatial organization of these territories. The results show cyclical patterns in rural areas inversely complementary to the violent processes that in some periods expel and, in others, attract population. That only can be understood from the particular context of the conflict in each shire while the accumulative effect of what happens in the regions is not equal to the result of the entire region. Contrary to expected, its behavior is different.

Keywords : Population dynamics; balance of migration effects; violent processes.

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