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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Autor principal: Ileana Parra Grazzina
Formato: Artículo científico
Publicado: Universidad del Norte 2006
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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 Maracaibo’s sterility lands. This process was studied in the framework of the Austrias mercantilist politic, through the historic analysis of the Indias General File