Objective:

To examine the relationship between economic development, modernization and demographic growth in Manizales during the first forty years of the 20th century.

Methodology:

The study was carried out from a “hermeneutical historical” approach, the theoretical and methodological contributions of the “local/regional history” approximated to the “social history”, the reduction of the observation scale of the microanalysis and historical demography.

Results:

A description of the modernization process of Manizales was made based on the socioeconomic changes and their influence on the demographic growth between 1905 and 1940.

Conclusions:

The population increase in Manizales during this period is due to internal immigration processes rather than to the natural growth, closely linked to the reconstruction project of the city downtown after the fires of 1922, 1925 and 1926.

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