Descripción:

The project is presented in perspective of historical trajectory, analyzing the construction of terrestrial communication routes (main roads, not secondary roads) in the Northern Region (both in San Carlos and in other towns in the area), in the twenty years after the creation of the bordering cantons (Upala, Guatuso, Los Chiles, Sarapiquí), so that it is possible to demonstrate the interests that mediated such projects, the role of local governments and the impact that these works generated on spatial and social dynamics of the region. It is intended to start the analysis from 1970 since it was the year in which the cantons located on the northern border were founded and that allows better access to primary sources; It was also in this decade when the interest to establish an alternate interregional road between San Carlos and Naranjo began to develop. It reaches the year 1990, because for that period the main access routes to the aforementioned cantons had already been built, which are currently still there, in addition to the institutionalization of the demand for the Florence-Naranjo road through the creation of the Association Pro Carretera in 1989.