Right to mobility

An essential factor for individual and collective development, ensuring people's ability to travel safely, efficiently, and accessibly.

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Find information here about the road infrastructure that facilitates access to mobility, a fundamental human right that has been the focus of special attention due to the humanitarian crisis facing the Wayúu indigenous people in La Guajira.

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  • A characterized or inventoried road is one that has undergone a visual inspection of both its cross section and its elements, such as bridges, walls, and drainage works. Therefore, it is a detailed record of the physical, geometric, and operational characteristics, represented by georeferenced geographic information. This process allows for a diagnosis of the road infrastructure, thus providing reliable information for planning, maintenance, and effective decision-making in road infrastructure and mobility projects.
  • These are minor, specific works that address critical sites. These interventions, in turn, translate into improvements and fluidity in the passability of the entire corridor, reducing the risk of accidents or emergency situations, minimizing road service interruptions, prolonging the useful life of the infrastructure, and contributing to the social and economic development of the communities that inhabit the road area. n Intervention on tertiary road sections is vitally important because it improves traffic flow and direct access to communities, positively impacting their development. A road in good condition reduces transportation times and costs, facilitates the entry of humanitarian aid and basic services, and allows the population to move more safely to access economic and social opportunities.
  • The inventory or characterization of roads in the SINC defines important aspects such as the length, jurisdiction, and category of roads, operational aspects such as the number of lanes, types of surface, conditions, as well as the identification of important elements of the road network such as the existence of bridges, drainage works, walls, and critical sites. For more information, see the following link.
  • To understand what a road intervention is, it is necessary to understand several fundamental technical concepts. These include: critical site, which is the point where problems affecting traffic flow occur; subgrade, which is the natural base of the ground on which the road is built; drainage works, which allow water to pass through and prevent flooding; embankments, which are fillings necessary to level the road. These concepts are important because they explain the causes of deterioration of a road corridor and the type of technical solutions required to improve it. Understanding them allows us to understand that an intervention is not just “fixing the road,” but rather applying specific works that guarantee the safety, functionality, and durability of the road corridor. For more information, see the Response Auto 505 of 2025 Mobility Sector VF.
  • The Provisional Action Plan on the right to mobility has two (2) actions:
    1. Road characterization that contributes to the execution of works to improve the mobility conditions of the Wayúu people living in scattered rural areas (2 phases). Responsible: Ministry of Transportation (Resources) and municipalities of Maicao, Manaure, Uribia, and Riohacha (approves inventoried lengths). Km to be characterized: 2,488.66. Responsible parties: INVIAS and municipalities (Maicao, Manaure, Uribia, and Riohacha).
    Sections to be addressed: 36.
  • The Constitutional Court, through Order 505 of 2025, urges the Mobility sector to move forward with the completion of the actions that make up the Provisional Action Plan, approved by said Corporation through Order 311 of 2024. To this end, it grants a period of six (6) months, during which significant progress must be demonstrated in the interventions on the road sections included in the aforementioned plan, taking into account that these actions are aimed at improving the mobility conditions of the Wayuu communities located in remote areas. In this regard, the Court requests the submission of a detailed report on the progress made and, if the road intervention goals ordered are not met, the Mobility sector must submit a technical report that comprehensively justifies such non-compliance. It also orders the consolidation and presentation of a Structural Action Plan, setting the date for this as the beginning of 2026. For more information, see the Response Auto 505 of 2025 Mobility Sector VF.

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Key concepts

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Mobility, a key right for the Wayúu Indigenous People