The Department of Boyacá on the basis of the political project of the regeneration 1886-1903. Thoughts from the political, administrative and religious views.

• Main Author: Claudia Liliana Monroy Hernández
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia 2010-07-01
• Series: Historia y Memoria
• Subjects: regeneración; nación; lenguaje; religión; educación; centralismo
• Online Access: http://revistas.uptc.edu.co/index.php/historia_memoria/article/view/781

This article pretends to analyze the project of nation in Colombia during the period of the Regeneration, taking the specific case of the Department of Boyacá. This was a project that pretended the consolidation of a modern state through the elements of power as the religion, the education and the language, which allowed organizing a new political – administrative system of a centralistic status, in other words, that through the constitution of 1886 a social order be imposed, establishing a strong State, moved by a central government. Through these elements, it will be explained how the change from a Sovereign State of Boyacá to a Political and Administrative Department happened, which lead to a series of reforms of an economical, political and social status, that next to the transition of a secular education to a confessional education, determined the destiny of the Department from a Political Project of the Regeneration.