El cultivo del cacao venezolano a partir de Maruma

Abstract

This research analyzes the expansion of Creole or Venezuelan cocoa cultivation from the discovery of indigenous plantations by Hispanics in Maruma, in the south of Lake Maracaibo. It also analyses their diffusion process towards the Government of Venezuela and the northeast of the Nueva Granada, from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. The study is based on documentary analysis about the location and expansion of their crops according to the information provided by the existing sources in the Archivo General de Indias (AGI), General Archive of the State Merida (AGEM) and the Febres Cordero National Library (BNFC). In this study, quantitative methods are applied and the study meets the agrarian history mainstream.