Territorial Rule in Colombia and the Transformation of the Llanos Orientales
Jane M. Rausch
Abstract
In the 1980s the discovery of exploitable petroleum deposits in the Llanos Orientales or eastern plains of Colombia transformed what had long been a neglected frontier into the fastest growing region in the country. This book provides a survey of the region's history in the last half of the twentieth century by examining government policies toward the Llanos from 1946 to the present and the resulting planned and spontaneous political, economic, and social changes that occurred in the departments of Meta, Casanare, Arauca, and Vichada. Jane Rausch demonstrates that the Llanos as a tropical fron ... More
Keywords: Llanos Orientales, frontiers, Colombia, history, South America, petroleum, development, exploitation
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2013 | Print ISBN-13: 9780813044668 |
| Published to Florida Scholarship Online: January 2014 | DOI:10.5744/florida/9780813044668.001.0001 |
