The highway section of the line as “a socioeconomic regionalization project”

Abstract

The stop of the line has been established in recent years as one of the largest regionalization projects in Colombia seeking to connect the road corridor from the center - south of the country with the port of Buenaventura. However, the challenge implied for engineering to carry out its development has been of enormous complexity due to the physical, cultural, social, environmental and economic factors that are found there, transforming the geographical space and the category of region into the populations of Cajamarca in the department of Tolima, and Calarcá in the department of Quindío. The objective of the study was to carry out an analysis of the consequences produced by environmental, social and regional factors that were triggered by the implementation of the Línea road tunnels, revealing how these effects generated a great imbalance in the economic and social development in these regions of the Colombian territory. The research had a qualitative approach where a survey was used as a data collection technique, which allowed the necessary and accurate information to be collected for the study sampling. Finally, it is concluded that the implementation of the line tunnel project contrasts with the theory of the research and the perceptible vision of those surveyed, since many of them highlighted that after its inauguration the benefit they have received from it is very little, leaving between seeing an uneven development by the state through the intensification of the perpetual domination of space.