Fuentes y estudios sobre desastres históricos en Colombia. Retrospectiva y estado actual

ABSTRACT

The historical investigation applied to natural hazard studies in Colombia are guite numerous nad started some 50m years ago with the first papers written by father Jesús Emilio Ramírez. His most relevant contribution is the well known Historia de los terremotos en Colombia (1975). During the last 15 years Colombia has been shaket by several natural disaster. As a result, natural hazard studies has been undertaken and in most the them the historical part has turned out to be verry important. Sources of information, covering the last 500 years, have appeared to be verry good in terms of quality and amount of data. This paper describes the different steps followed by the historical studies applied to natural phenomena in Colombia since the spanish colonial period and analyses the present state of the works. (AU)