It commemorates the anniversary these days Maicao number 83 one of the most important cities of La Guajira department for several reasons including the rapid growth they have had in its eight decades of existence, based on its frontier economy, in the view commercial people settled in its soil and its privileged geographical position, equidistant from the towns north and south and only ten kilometers from the border with Venezuela Bolivarian Republic.
Today Maicao present is based on several aspects that makes any city promising, vigorous and far from the misfortunes that he predicted when he finished the commercial boom of the seventies.
Here are some reasons to believe in the future of “The Land of Corn”
1. Its multiculturalism: the maicaeros communicate in several languages, attend churches of various religious denominations and live within it in a brotherly hug and happy colony largest Arab country, hundreds of African descendants of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, countries consuming Santander and entrepreneurs, a tiny group of Chinese some Ecuadorian indigenous Wayuu and our beloved. In addition there Maicao one of the most important chapters Zenúes all that exist outside the borders of Cordoba and Sucre. Maicao is undoubtedly a tribute to racial diversity.
2. Maicao young and proud city: In Maicao now live in three generations. The first is that of Green Card Lottery immigrants who made their living colonization and proud of the city that helped build the second is that of their children, the first generation born maicaeros who began to write his own history from the time opened their eyes and looked around and found a people pleasing, generous and kind. In the third generation the most “large right” must be twenty years younger and is composed of about twenty years, they have a strong sense of identity and a high sense of belonging as maicaeros.
3. Maicao growing: Today about 150 thousand people live, walk, breathe and dream in the nearly one hundred quarters of its urban area. Growth has not been properly ordered, it must be said, but the capital of the border was extended to give haven to those who are here to stay and those who were born on its soil.
4. A Maicao-Maicao: long Maicao is saddled with the epithet of “City with floating population” this evil myth was even used to deny certain rights to which access was due to its population. After the crisis of trade in the nineties and early twenty-first century the population has stabilized and now we can say that who is in Maicao, will be forever.
5. Maicao resilient: Maicao economy was like a roller coaster with some ups and some downs impressive extremes. Likewise, at times the situation was more like a slide since entered a period of irreversible decline in their business. But one thing that makes this a special land, faced one crisis to another and always survived and emerged stronger. Today Maicao has a vigorous life and learned to live not only from the sale of foreign goods. Gone are the days when he ran ahead of the death certificate. Today he provides not only a long life but he sees a bright future built by a generation proud of its own.
