Historia del proyecto carretero a la Costa central de Oaxaca durante el siglo XIX

Abstract

The objective of the article is to review in a general way the history of the transversal road towards the Central Coast of Oaxaca, Mexico, throughout the nineteenth century, from the logic of regional history. The text shows two general moments in which the port of Huatulco, initially, and Puerto Ángel, later, were the points of articulation of the road, many times as part of interoceanic communication projects. None of the specific projects materialized, due to various factors, especially political and economic, which can be identified in the text. However, this look shows an extremely significant role of the road project in the projections of a communications system in that period. One of the main contributions of the text is precisely to explore from a critical perspective, distant from the conventional centralist vision. Among the collections consulted are the Hemeroteca Nacional de México, the Hemeroteca Manuel Brioso y Candiani, Hemeroteca Digital de la Biblioteca Nacional de España, Biblioteca Fray Francisco de Burgoa and the Mapoteca Manuel Orozco y Berra.