Sincelejo’s enterprise history 1920 - 1935

Abstract

The objective of this article is to describe and interpret the Sincelejo’s enterprise
history between years 1920 - 1935, with respect to its enterprise activities, its enterprise
direction, its increasing and crisis periods, and its most significant companies. The
methodology included elaboration of the state-of-the-art, revision and analysis of the
protocols of the Notary’s office First of Sincelejo, as well as of animated sources. The
used methods were the description, the analysis, the synthesis and the hermeneutics. In
Sincelejo, the most important economic activity was the cattle ranch, the only exporting
activity. Also they stood out the commerce of merchandise, the banking, fluvial and
educative activity. In the industry two companies were very common: aguardiente and
the usury.