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The small and medium land and production

Various circumstances that operated from the early seventeenth century began to be visible the presence of the median non-Indian property. Among others, can noted the following:

- poor whites
Immigration Division - in part, remnants of ranches
- Mercedes middle ground extension
- Replacement of agricultural production of the Indians.

Planters small balloons of land used as a funding source and payment of services. (I mentioned the custom of giving a piece of land by way of dowry). Others used as payment or gift parcels faithful subordinates or employees.
early seventeenth century (1606), due to a shortage of meat, ordered a small ratio stays for the purpose of requisition. The result was a sort of census of small properties in the Savannah . In total there were 86 farmers.

PLACE	NUMBER
Suba Sopó Guasca Guatavita Chocontá Simijaca, Fúquene Nemocón Cajicá, Tabio, Cota and Chia Tunjuelo, Bosa and Fontibon	2 6 16 2 2 6 10 10 38

lower levels of tenure, as perceived and classified in the colonial era could be defined well:

ranchers: media owners
Farmers and growers: smallholders.

This segment of owners began to increase during the seventeenth century and diversifying the ownership of land. Will be saturated with the physical space in the Savannah and managers expansion of the border, during the boom in business, and later in the period of stagnation (1660 1770).
Poor whites and mestizos farmers would start gathering around the Indian villages and reservations. Successive visits show this phenomenon also trials conflicts around the earth.
The gradual collapse of the indigenous organization would lead to a greater number of indigenous detribalize, flee to the tax obligations and start their crosses. The blending progressive, which began to rise since the second half of the seventeenth century, carried the adoption of a peasant status, ie, small individual farming.
Another contingent, composed of landless Indians and their family ties, establish relations with the estates lease.
Since the first decades of the seventeenth century, may be cases in which landowners provided land to the Indians within their domains, with the permission of sowing corn, as a form of retention. This offer as a strategy for the estate contains the germ of the lease relationship.
end of the eighteenth century the proportion of Indians, mestizos, as the visits had already been invested. La Sabana started to have a certain demographic saturation was possibly supported by very large plots.
A document from 1780 notes the surplus population and suggests a colonization of the slopes and neighboring provinces.
The increased presence of small production did not mean, however, a substantial change in the land or the structure of the population . It clear that the relationship between land and population was extremely unfair. Between 80% and 90% of the population of Savannah had access to only a proportion of land that could be estimated between 10% and 20% of the total.
Moreover, between 60% and 70% of the land belonging to 2% of the owners.
As you can see, not much has changed to date tenure and land distribution.

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