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Family Life of Latin American Urban Migrants: Three Case Studies in Bogotá

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

William L. Flinn*
Affiliation:
310 King Hall, Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706

Extract

It is estimated that approximately 40 percent of the Colombian population now lives in cities of 100,000 or more. Although the pattern of urbanization in Colombia is more dispersed than in most Latin American countries, the proportion of the urban population living in the four largest cities has steadily increased. Over the last 13 year period, this rate of growth ranged between 4.4 and 7.0 percent (Agency for International Development, n.d.: 17). For example, Bogotá had a population in 1950 of approximately 500,000, but estimates indicate that by 1975 it will have a population of 3,605,000.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © University of Miami 1974

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