Cartagena de Indias y su tierra adentro a fines del siglo XVIII : un análisis demográfico
Cuadernos de Historia Económica y Empresarial ; No. 42
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2016-11-16Date of last update
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Summary
La huella profunda del legado colonial, en términos del enorme desbalance en desarrollo material entre las ciudades portuarias del Caribe colombiano (Cartagena, Santa Marta, Mompox), ha sido una constante de la vida republicana de la región. Ello se ha manifestado en: 1) la extrema pobreza rural, 2) la persistencia de un alto grado de urbanización y 3) las enormes desigualdades en ingresos y riqueza al interior de las zonas rurales. La gran paradoja del Caribe neogranadino a fines del siglo XVIII es que sus principales ciudades, Cartagena y Mompox, estaban dentro de las más dinámicas y prósperas a pesar de que la población de las zonas rurales era muy escasa y dispersa, y la mayoría vivía en condiciones miserables y por fuera de los ámbitos de poder colonial, como el de la Iglesia Católica. Este trabajo analiza esa escasa integración entre el Caribe urbano y el mundo rural haciendo uso de la información demográfica recolectada hacia 1777 en el Virreinato de Nueva Granada.
Abstract
The long term impact of the colonial legacy in terms of the imbalance in the levels of economic development between the port cities (Cartagena, Santa Marta, Mompox) has been an evident in the Colombian Caribbean. This legacy has had an influence on: 1) the extreme levels of rural poverty, 2) the persistence of high levels of urbanization, and 3) the enormous disparities in levels of income and wealth within the rural sector. The tragic paradox of the Caribbean region of the Viceroyalty of New Granada at the end of the eighteenth century was that although its main cities were among the most dynamic and prosperous in the viceroyalty, as was evident in its public and private architecture, the population of the rural areas was very small, widely dispersed, the majority lived in miserable conditions, and away from the control of the colonial authorities and the Catholic Church. The limited integration between the urban and rural Caribbean is analyzed in this paper using information of the population census collected around 1777 by the Spanish Crown.
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N36 - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion and Philanthropy: Latin America; CaribbeanN76 - Transport, Trade, Energy, Technology, and Other Services: Latin America; CaribbeanO18 - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
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https://repositorio.banrep.gov.co/handle/20.500.12134/6551https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12134/6551
https://doi.org/10.32468/chee.42
https://ideas.repec.org/p/bdr/cheedt/42.html
https://ideas.repec.org/p/col/000101/015218.html
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