Biblioteca cultural y regional

Abstract

Colombia is a country that until 2014 has 47'846,160 inhabitants of which it is presumed that around 1,672,000 are illiterate, taking into account these figures it was shown that the poorest population is the majority of illiterate1. Hence, statistically it is argued that around 1'405.112 inhabitants live in the department of Boyacá, of which 9.9% of 5-year-old children up to 14 years of age and 10.1% of 15-year-olds henceforth they cannot read or write2. It can be established that currently in 120 municipalities of the 123 that the department of Boyacá has, there is a student population of 175,373 among children and young people who attend from pre-school to eleventh grade, 3 for the above we can establish that it is a considerable number of students who do not have a place for research, cultural training and reading, it is necessary to highlight that the previous figures were issued without taking into account the largest cities in the department such as Tunja, Duitama and Sogamoso.