Colonization and agricultural development in the Galapagos Islands, 1832-1924: New contributions to the human history of the archipelago

The Galapagos Islands are one of the most important spots for tourism and science worldwide because the academy considers them a real evolution laboratory. Besides, the islands have been part of Ecuador for almost two hundred years. During that time, the country, mainly in the first hundred, did not have control or a sovereign presence that would allow it to establish a clear colonization policy. This paper tries to give new data about two important activities that occurred and continue to occur nowadays: colonization and agricultural development between 1900 and 1924. For this paper, secondary sources were reviewed by Ecuadorian and foreign authors who studied these two topics. However, the paper adds essential information from primary sources that the cited authors had not previously considered; among these, we can mention press from Guayaquil city in the period mentioned above, like El Telégrafo or El Guante. Besides, information from the Port Authority, Mines Register, Presidential Office, Parliament, and some ministries are included. Among the main results obtained, the paper shows information about national and international companies that settled on the islands, a detailed report about the death of Manuel Cobos and Leonardo Reina in San Cristobal Island, and the acquisition of copper mines in Galapagos by Ecuadorian investors.

• Autor principal: Garrido Cornejo, Carlos René (author)
• Format: article
• Idioma: spa; eng
• Publicat: 2024
• Matèries: Islas Galápagos; colonización; agricultura; industrias; minería; Galapagos Islands; colonization; agriculture; industries; mining
• Accés en línia: https://revistadigital.uce.edu.ec/index.php/SIEMBRA/article/view/5423