The closure of the plain road completes more than 25 days.
The closure of the plain road completes more than 25 days And it already leaves an economic impact close to a billion pesos for the productive sectors of the region, according to Henry Palma, president of the Board of Directors of the Villavicencio Chamber of Commerce.
“In these 24 or 26 days of closing, the region has lost approximately one billion pesos throughout the economy in general,” he explained during the Congress of Confecáras 2025.
Palma pointed out that trade loses about 10 billion pesos daily due to transport paralysis. “We are talking about about 4,000 daily trucks that move on the road, both with products that come from Bogotá to Villavicencio, and with those that leave from the region to the capital. That represents losses of around 18 billion pesos each day in agricultural products such as oil palm, rice, fruit trees and others that supply the center of the country.”
Tourism is another of the sectors with the greatest affectation. According to the leader, “about 5 billion pesos are lost daily in tourism, which has to do with reservations, services and the entire chain that depends on that activity.” To this are added losses for 3 billion pesos in agribusiness and a 75% affectation in public transport and passengers.
Palma warned that the problem is not limited to the goal, but to the entire Mazorinoquía region. “Last year 313 thousand travelers moved to this area that includes Guaviare, Guainía, Vaupés, Meta and Vichada. Only in Guaviare there are 208 companies that today have decreased their sales by 90%, and in total there are 4,180 those directly affected,” he explained.
In addition, he recalled that “26% of the food consumed by the interior of the country comes from the cob”, which makes the crisis a matter of national interest. In that region, he added, there are more than 5,200 heads of won, tons of cheese, fish and other essential products that have not been able to leave.
The president of the Board of Directors of the Villavicencio Chamber insisted that immediate measures are required. “The call is to invest urgent resources to stabilize the current route and think of an alternate route that does not repeat the same geological problems we have had for years.”
Finally, he stressed that the unions are working together with the Bogotá Chamber of Commerce to raise financing options. “If the resources are not due to the fiscal crisis that the country has, we must seek mechanisms such as taxes for taxes or alternative funds that allow the crisis of the road to the plain,” he concluded.
Source: Integrated information system
