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Boyaca to receive over $880.000 million in investment for 2027

President Abelardo de la Espriella announced in Tunja a package for Boyaca in 2027 exceeding $880.000 million, with $630.000 million for roads, $250.000…

--- The context --- President Abelardo de la Espriella visited Tunja on Monday, November 9, and placed Boyaca at the center of the national agenda with an investment package for 2027 that exceeds $880.000 million. The announcements followed a security council and a meeting with departmental and municipal authorities, under the strategy known as El Milagro de las Regiones. For a department of 123 municipalities with a historic investment backlog, as the president himself described it, the plan brings together public works, support for farmers and social care within a single territorial agenda for the coming year. --- The facts --- The largest component is road infrastructure, with $630.000 million assigned to Boyaca road corridors during 2027. The plan also opens the Caminos del Tigre program to all 123 municipalities through a partnership scheme involving the national government, mayors, communities and regional business owners. The Tibana–Chinavita–Garagoa–Las Juntas corridor will be included in the National Development Plan, with efforts to secure its financing, and a pre-feasibility study was ordered to assess an airport in Villa de Leyva aimed at connectivity and tourism potential for that municipality and its surrounding area. --- The facts --- In health, two specific allocations were announced: $25.681 million for the Maternal and Child Unit of Hospital Universitario San Rafael de Tunja and $2.200 million for the Hospital de Miraflores. For agriculture, an investment of $250.000 million for 2027 will support crop and livestock producers facing the El Niño phenomenon, through incentives and subsidies, credit lines and climate insurance, irrigation systems, protection against price swings and support for the dairy chain and irrigation districts. The president also said he would address requests from milk-producing municipalities and seek ways to help stabilize prices for producers. --- The facts --- In education, investments were announced to improve school infrastructure in 19 municipalities and to recover the Institucion Educativa San Marcos, affected by the earthquake. In housing, the commitment is to finish 1.421 pending home improvements, alongside actions to guarantee continuity of the rural aqueduct of Moniquira and progress on land titling for farming families. Mining will receive support for 29 formalization projects, energy plans include rural gas and three solar farms, and sport will receive $2.300 million in 2027 for social and sports development programs across the department. --- The positions --- The president argued, in remarks attributed to his address, that social investment must move forward in parallel with security actions and that Boyaca will have priority on the national government agenda. He also said he would personally follow the execution of the health resources and warned that he would not allow money meant for works to end up in corruption or political interests. From a territorial perspective, the official emphasis is that small and remote municipalities should also gain access to national resources and that the commitments must become concrete projects for communities. --- What remains unknown --- Detailed schedules for each work, the co-financing mechanisms between the nation and local administrations and the distribution by municipality are not yet known. The announcement itself anticipated working meetings to review the projects of each municipality, set priorities and define that co-financing. Nor were deadlines specified for the pre-feasibility study of the Villa de Leyva airport, for completing the 1.421 home improvements, for mining formalization or for the three solar farms, so verification will come with execution during 2027 across the department. --- Unanswered questions --- How will the $630.000 million for roads be divided among corridors and the 123 municipalities of the department? What criteria will decide which municipalities receive education, health and housing works first? When will the $250.000 million for agriculture against El Niño begin to be disbursed and how will it reach milk producers? What concrete results will the pre-feasibility study for the Villa de Leyva airport deliver and on what date will they be known? --- EPM analysis --- The territorial reading of the package is that it joins fronts usually announced separately: roads, farming, health, education, housing, energy and security appear within a single visit and a single overall figure. That integration can help investment avoid concentrating only in the departmental capital, provided the municipal meetings turn announcements into verifiable priorities. The social component, with the maternal and child unit, the pending home improvements and the Moniquira rural aqueduct, focuses on everyday needs of Boyaca families and on closing long-standing gaps in basic services. 📌 EPM Take: In EPM's view, the value of the announcement for Boyaca lies in its scale and its territorial reach, because it exceeds $880.000 million and reaches all 123 municipalities with social, productive and connectivity fronts at the same time. Care for mothers and children in Tunja, support for farming against El Niño, pending housing and rural water in Moniquira show a commitment to closing concrete gaps. Its real test will be transparent execution in 2027, with public schedules, clear co-financing and results that communities can verify municipality by municipality without intermediaries or delays.
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