Abstract

NIEVA SANZ, Daniel Miguel. Foundation and redefinition of ports and dry docks on the Magdalena River at the beginning of Hispanic period. memorias [online]. 2023, n.51, pp.8-28.  Epub Jan 12, 2024. ISSN 1794-8886.  https://doi.org/10.14482/memor.51.001.649.

Throughout the history of mankind, the seas and rivers have been magnificent spaces for communication, trade and obtaining resources. In America, the fluvial courses were also the main entrance from the sea to the interior territories, which accentuated their function as spaces for communication, circulation of products and contact. In this sense, the present research focuses on a dual analysis of how the fluvial zones of port use in the pre-Hispanic period were adapted for the nautical traffic established in the Magdalena River at the beginning of the Hispanic period or were replaced by new spaces that guaranteed the feasibility of a strategic communication for the development of the New Kingdom of Granada.

Keywords : canoes; maritime-fluvial ethnohistory; navigation; rivers; port landscape.

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