This article aims to analyze the process of transfo rmation of the territory that came into being with the establishment of large politically a dministered units at the end of the nineteenth century in Venezuela. They came about with the enactment of the so-called “Swiss” Constitution of 1881 which established the reduction of the twenty states founded by the Federal Constitution of 1864 to nine ‐ previ ously eight ‐ large states. We will study the tensions that transpired as a consequence of th e separation of one of these large states, Bolivar, comprised of Apure and Guayana, and the Federal Territory Yuruary. Finally, we will examine the road links of this large state. In order to carry out this study, we will deal with a revision of primary sources, such as the Law s and Decrees of Venezuela, and the press primarily from the areas known today as the s tates of Apure and Bolivar.