Maracaibo: De pueblo de Agua a Ciudad, Puerto siglos XVIXVII
The Maracaibo aboriginal town and its terms preceded that was the Maracaibo city-port in XVI and XVII centuries, inserted in the European capitalist expansion. The Maracaibo extreme advantage situation into the interval of the maritime and lake waters, favoured the alternative of communication betwe...
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Universidad del Norte
2006
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| Acceso en línea: | http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=85520403 http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=co/co-015&d=85520403oai |
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| Sumario: | The Maracaibo aboriginal town and its terms preceded that was the Maracaibo city-port in XVI and XVII centuries, inserted in the European capitalist expansion. The Maracaibo extreme advantage situation into the interval of the maritime and lake waters, favoured the alternative of communication between the Andeans-lacustrine producing centres, with the Caribbean and Atlantic; factor profited by the north Lake populations in order to domain the lake navigation that derived in political and economic rivalries, this occurred in the aboriginal times as in Hispanic subjugation period. It intends to interpret the growth of the port and its competitiveness with the other lake ports of Moporo, Tomoporo and Gibraltar by the commercial control, of which depended paradoxically for its provision due to Maracaibos sterility lands. This process was studied in the framework of the Austrias mercantilist politic, through the historic analysis of the Indias General File |
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